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how did this get published?

>last book by Kaur sold well
>why not publish another
It's not all about quality

haha just noticed the flowers are buttholes
bravo rupi

I was at Coles earlier and I stumbled upon milk and honey, and boy was it some trite.

One of the first poems is about how this guy forced her a kiss when she was like 5 or something, the next was about how this psychiatrist showed her a doll to tell her where her uncle touched her. Keep in mind, that there is nothing subtle about the presentation of these poems, they're REALLY outright with what the poem is about. Of course, when you don't use punctuation or capitalization, then people obviously think you're artistic. There was also this one poem, I don't remember what it was about but it was typeset so that the text was in a teiangle or diamond over a napkin doodle of a woman spreading her legs to expose her crotch.

>the absolute state of modern poetry

she had a shitload of instagram followers

It sells

Read The Serious Artist by Ezra Pound.
All the people involved in the publication of this book and the previous one did the opposite.

thats just cruel

because it's good

if it wasn't it wouldn't sell

good != marketable

it's marketable
and good
which is why it sold so much

Yeah, The Hunger Games and Harry Potter are good too

You're not even tryng, user

she was music
and her publisher had his ears cut off.

noooooo! why would you do that?! why would someone do that to an innocent turtle!?!?!

fuck i'm sad now

People will do anything for some attention. Were sad, flawed creatures.

How can people do things like that and feel good about themselves unless they have a mental illness?

because for the past 30 years everyone did their best to kill arts funding in schools. a class on literature first transformed to the more vague "English" until now becoming "English Language Arts"

so most americans dont get to find out that there's a whole world of music outside of the charts. most americans dont get to grapple with the immense richness of poetry both in the Anglo tradition and from other cultures. most americans will be forced to read literature that has no purpose other than to bludgeon you with a message - 1984, to kill a mockingbird, etc.

consequently people are starving for something that speaks to them on some basic level beyond acquisition of property. young women buy instagram poetry books, young men pay an internet celebrity money to talk at a camera. this is exactly what DFW was talking about in "e unibus pluram;" exhausted with the current nihilistic consumerism of our culture, we'll latch onto anything that even remotely seems like its speaking to us.

Someone shop goatse

>a class on literature first transformed to the more vague "English"
we had once a class called "Castellano", for decades, now its called the nebulous "Language". is this some sort of global agenda?

>China
Should've let Japan take over desu

Her fans equal money...

> how did this get published?

It had a cute title?

this. chinese are brutal to animals

This. Language arts classes in America can make you hate literature. The curriculum has been selected for the lowest common denominator of students so that nobody gets left behind. As a result you spend a bunch of time reading heavy-handed dystopias and shitty short stories to discuss symbolism and metaphor, which most students are bored to tears with.

They also go for the whole multicultural thing, but somehow manage to pick out some of the worst fucking literature written by American minorities. You could have kids reading Beloved or something but instead they have to read 12 pages about some Caribbean chick washing calabash gourds and weaving a quilt or fucking whatever.

>The Hunger Games and Harry Potter are good too
They're not that bad. just mediocre. they make a lot of sense for popular audiences to like. both have great characteristics.

but that won't kill it right
only make it stronger

poopi rupi strikes again!

what a mega cunt

what the fuck is even happening in the gif

guy feeds tortoise really hot pepper and the tortoise tries running away as the owner tries to feed him it again

>guy feeds tortoise really hot pepper
and here I was wondering what was so bad about giving the little guy a piece of green onion :(

Its a Chinese gif, they're about to cook it anyway you stupid idiot

>How to create Bowser

the fucking japs did way worse things to the chinese than feed a turtle a pepper you faggots

This

jej

The Chinese aren't human though, unlike that poor tortoise.