I saw a thread on Veeky Forums about this, but didn't really look at it.
Then I went to Waterstones today and saw STACKS of this fucking thing. I picked one up and read a few pages.
Holy fuck. How does win a prize? How does this get published? It's the most trite, sentimental shit. There's no poetry in it. No discernible talent. These are the sentences you'd expect of a teenager, given line breaks to look like poetry.
Do I just need to be a feminist PoC/minority to win at life?
ya she'd probably be down for the state enforced homosexuality
Daniel Allen
>mfw it has 4.4 stars on goodreads with over 31 thousand ratings
Andrew Bailey
Is she a type that propagates that all men should learn not to rape? I had no idea these urges were natural!
Jose Martin
Please seek help from a mental health professional
Robert Nelson
Yeah too bad we're all being forced at gunpoint to read it huh? stop getting so triggered by shitty poetry that doesn't affect you at all
Ryder Hernandez
I will not let these fucking cultural philistines redefine the standards of aesthetic taste.
Jeremiah Parker
>lolita has 3.9 >blood meridian has 4.2 >brothers karamazov has 4.3 >infinite jest has 4.3
Wow, she must be really talented, look how hard she beat those generic white males! Diversity win!
Brody Ward
lol
Jayden Baker
>honey is femmecode for "jokes"
Brandon Wilson
Holy...
Isaiah White
i want more
Henry Hall
Then write and publish something better
Daniel Collins
Spat on it at my local bookstore.
Dominic Howard
...
Sebastian Adams
...
Charles Lee
Maybe I will, but first I will criticize the body of work belonging to Ms. Rupi Kaur.
Ryan Edwards
>Maybe I will,
nah you won't you're just going to sit on here and shitpost frog pictures and genderbaiting same as you do every hour of every fucking day
- rupi kaur
Dylan Gutierrez
i swear i can't tell the difference between the real ones and the parody ones any more
Ryan Rodriguez
>genderbaiting shitposting on Veeky Forums is patrician
the greatest minds in human history would be here shitposting about the holocaust and BBCs
Jackson Robinson
In March 2015, as part of a photo project for a university class, Kaur posted a photo of herself lying in bed with a menstrual blood stain on her sweatpants on Instagram. Instagram removed it twice because the picture didn't "follow (their) Community Guidelines."[11] The picture was part of menstruation themed photo-series to destigmatize taboos around menstruation.[12] Kaur took to Facebook and critiqued Instagram's action saying, "Thank you Instagram for providing me with the exact response my work was created to critique. You deleted my photo twice stating that it goes against community guidelines. I will not apologize for not feeding the ego and pride of misogynist society that will have my body in an underwear but not be ok with a small leak when your pages are filled with countless photos/accounts where women (so many who are underage) are objectified, pornified, and treated less than human."[13]
The picture on Facebook was shared by thousands, went viral and made headlines around the world. Later, Instagram restored her picture and apologized to Rupi Kaur saying it had removed it by mistake.[12]
Noah Lewis
>the greatest minds in human history would be here shitposting about the holocaust and BBCs That fedora is killing your brain, user.
Anthony Torres
>taboos against menstruation
there are absolutely nothing taboo about menstruation. people dont want to see it because it's unhygienic and if people see someone bleeding out in the street they're more likely to ask if youre okay because they think you may be injured. jesus christ the narcissism knows no bounds!
Lucas Gray
>fedora excuse me?
Parker Howard
>your bed accident becomes an international sensation and thousands of people around the world share and praise it why does this feel spoopy
Jack Lopez
Holy fuck why am I laughing like an idiot that pic oh wow
Hunter Morris
>publish There's the rub.
Carter Sanchez
>DUDE, just publish your work LMAO >it doesn't matter that you aren't marketable at all bro, just do what you FEEL is right
Connor Barnes
quality is marketable
Aiden Nelson
apparently not
David Russell
Just because you talk like Pound and Bloom doesnt mean your opinion matters