/lit/ - Literature

>>12294810
he was a better writer than the late sean f kay

she smells of poo lol
HEYYOH damn nigga fpbp btfo based AND patrician pilled
shitposters they never learn amirite opfag

>>12294810
Milk and Honey has a nice cover.

It's a 1/10 book outside of that, but still.

>>12294810
She seems to mean a lot to some people who otherwise would not read poetry at all - maybe her poetry is bad, but something is better than nothing.

And she is economically very successful - maybe we have a lot to learn from her about how to connect with people?

>>12294810
My local Indigo Books now also stocks a bunch of people who are clearly trying to ape her aesthetic, literally same cover font, same short instagramable poems with little line drawings, but are even worse than her.

So she’s not the worst, it’s the people who are derivative of her style who are the worse

>>12294810
I think the nicest possible way to describe her poetry is vapid and predictable.

>>12294996
>but are even worse than her.
How? Do you have any examples?

>>12294810
Great face to cum

>>12294810
Id be really happy to do sexual things w her desu senpai

>>12295275
ruby dhal

>>12294810
She is a sad representative of the times: you can become tremendously successful by appealing to the vapidness, and self-righteous narcissism of modern women. Any field with too many women tends to degrade. Notice how comics/mangas are now the source for original ideas in the modern day. It's the stories from comics/mangas that are getting turned into blockbuster movies, not shit like this.

The few examples of successful female stories come from them appealing to young boys, like the Harry Potter series, which has only recently been co-opted by vapid women thanks to the horoscope site that is Pottermore. Since that site started, the Hogwarts houses turned into Zodiacs, grouping women into cliches. I've seen my own sister, someone who didn't care for the books at all growing up, suddenly turn into a Harry Potter fanatic thanks to that site.

>>12294810
I am infatuated with her largish eyebrows and plump, cinnamon rump. I would plow her on the rag so fucking passionately she would devote an entire section of her next instapoem anthology to my cock.

>>12295275
Anna Ciarkowska
It's good that majority of us can't understand her
https://www.empik.com/empikultura/instapoezja-wyszla-z-sieci-i-podbija-listy-bestsellerow,14851,a

>>12294984
If you keep writing then
You will eventually touch someone
Else's soul.
Maybe my poetry sucks
But it makes me a lot of money.
I do not care
What incels think, anyways.

-always connecting

Rupi Kaur

>>12295527
>any field with too many women tends to degrade
It's funny you mention manga while saying this because that's a field that has had a large number of women working in it since it's inception, which has largely shaped how both anime and manga is today.

>>12295550
ale bieda iks de

>>12295550
ja pierdole :DDDDD

>>12295527
Fucking superhero movies aimed at manchildren - designed as nothing more than one dopamine hit after another - is your idea of good contemporary art? Not only is this an illustration of horrendous taste, it also undercuts your original point given women are growing more and more involved in the creation of these films.

You're conflating merit with success, the very mass-driven phenomenon you called out in your first paragraph.

>>12295550

>>12295652
o chuj

>>12294810
she's rich.

>>12294810
she's
pretty good
at
social media marketing.

https://www.thecut.com/2017/10/profile-rupi-kaur-author-of-milk-and-honey.html

This article, you can feel the underlying disdain the author held for rupee.

I've always felt her instapoems on paper were nothing more than half-assed prose devoid of proper syntax and punctuation, but the article confirms my suspicion of her being a shallow hack that belongs in one of DFW's essays.

I would like to cum on her big indian nose.

>>12295700
It's a pretty funny article. Reads almost like a satire of literary author profiles.

I wonder if the writer was assigned it by an editor and only undertook it begrudgingly, or if they took pleasure in savaging a blatant hack.

>>12295700
>that belongs in one of DFW's essays
Well, that's never going to happen - is it? Who's fault is that? She did her part.

>>12295700
>“I’m so particular about the spacing and the page and the color”
It was always readily apparent to me that this was true.

>>12294810
She made so much money off of her "poetry" she should be called Rupees Crore.

>>12295527
>manga doesn't have women
Imagine knowing absolutely nothing but thinking you know everything

>>12295700
>This guy is the best,” she says, noticing an edition of Kafka’s complete stories; she’s referring to Peter Mendelsund, the book’s designer. “The dream is to have him design my next book.” His work, she points out, translates well across media — to different sizes, to posters, to digital.
As expected from a business major

>>12295275
https://www.instagram.com/r.h.sin/?hl=en

Found this one at Target. Specializes in convincing women that their past relationships were all 'emotionally abusive'. Seems to know his audience well, judging by the comments. Apparently has 10+ published books.

>>12294996
I noticed that last time I was in a chapters.
Only one I recognized was Aticus, but that was because I saw a CBC article with him

>>12295527
the manga industry has a large amount of women working in it

>>12295550
lmao nice culture p*oles

>>12295550
o k00rwa :DDDDD

>>12294996

That entire style is copped from Omar Khayyam's rubaiyats anyway.

At least the Fitzgerald English translation has drawings and interesting word formatting

>>12296617
He has a quite nice style desu
Though the way the comment is made is quite funny.

Bump

>>12295283
>>12295356
>>12295719
best answers
i bet she's proper dirty in the sack

Is there a poet I can introduce my gf to that will help wean her off of Milk and Honey-style bullshit?

>>12298322
wordsworth, keats, shelley, tennyson
all very readable and quality stuff

>>12295772
>It’s basically just a list of stuff,” Kaur explains. “I would ask them to write a list of things that they wish they were born with, and write the first thing that comes to mind. And then folks would write a list of 20 things, from physical things to abstract things, and it was super cool because then you would go around and you’d read them out loud and everybody had different answers. And the best part was they’d walk away, like, oh, I can do this, I’m a poet. I’m like, yeah, you are.”

XD

>>12295859
If Rupi Kaur lived in India, she'd be Poopy Kaur

>>12298322
You mean milk and honey?

>>12295527
>appealing to the vapidness and self-righteous narcissism of modern women

Wow you must be fun at parties

>>12294810
The first girl that ever shown interest in me sexual was Indian so nw I have a fetish for Indians and I would fuck her everyday for eternity

something nice about Rupi Kaur

>>12294810
She wrote this piece of art.

>>12295552
nice

>>12298322
Just kill her.

>>12298322
Emily Dickinson maybe?

>>12295700
is molly our girl

>>12294810
She found a market niche to make money by scamming midwit artsy girls, so her life is pretty much sorted

>>12299818
>midwit artsy girls
that's more Bukowski, Rupi Kaur is for low-wit, extremely basic "art"hoes

>>12299320
It genuinely doesn't work without the title though.

anything for women or by women is shit

>>12298322
Unironically Frank O'Hara, my gf went from reading that to reading Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, no idea why

>>12296723
Look up his interviews with the new yorker. He is so devoid of any artistic passion (or self-awareness for that matter) it'll make you puke.

She probably spams social media with her burning hatred for the white man despite living in a white man's country and probably dates a white man

>instapoetry
da fuck?

>>12298305
it's true. my filthiest ex was a pretty hardcore feminist. she liked being tied up, spanked and fucked in the ass. also had daddy issues and enjoyed fucking in public.

a few years ago on this board someone posted this 14~ year old pretentious edgy poet kid who was like smoking during his interviews saying he wanted to die and i think he had kind of a following, anybody know who i'm talking about?

>>12301900
sounds like every soundcloud rapper tbqhfam

>>12295700
>Its matte black cover — the words “milk and honey” and “rupi kaur” in lowercase white serif, plus two line drawings of bees — conveys the message “I am reading a book” with maximum directness and simplicity (plus a feminist gleam).

LOL

>>12295700
>Kaur does not like to read when she is writing, and says that she hasn’t finished a book all year.

This article gets better and better lol

>>12302005
nah he was white and wasn't a musician he was just offensively misguided and tryhard

>>12294810
I want to creampie her
I live in TO and am decently attractive, so it may actually be possible

>>12302098
>you will never have Rupi Kaur on her knees with your dick in her mouth and a hand on your balls, looking up at you

>>12299320
I didn't know rupi was transphobic, quite based.

At least she doesn't pose with cigarettes

>>12294810
>menstrual taboos
i don't get it, why is menstruation a taboo, its a perfectly normal, not at all weird thing
is it protestant autism?

>>12301414
go on..

>>12295700
Lmao

>>12294810
>Say something nice about Rupi Kaur.
I cannot smell her from my present location.

>>12303200
many religions have some sort of squeamishness about periods. in hnduism a woman is not supposed to enter a temple while she is menstruating.
i guess there is a certain pragmatic side to it, as anyone who has seen the mess a girl can leave on their bedsheets would testify
i mean fucks sake it's like a murder took place

>>12303979

jesus christ thats cynical, this woman is definitely just looking for her 15 minutes, maybe praying for her #metoo moment as well

>>12303979
presumably these are the kafka covers she's talking about
they're a bit shit really
also any decent art would "translate well across media". i mean my wife's got a van gogh mousemat

>>12304253
menstruation is a completely normal thing not bad in any way, it pretty damn retarded to make it a taboo and i say this as a religious far righter
just like public breastfeeding
i fully stand with feminists on these things

Rupi Kaur has a nice Instagram look and has successfully found a way to make a career out of writing despite not being able to do it, a feat I have yet to achieve.

>>12304259
>maybe praying for her #metoo moment as well
I am betting she likes to get ragefucked. In that case she can just pick and choose when she wants to board the #meeeeeetoooooo bandwagon. Holy shit, she could guilt trip a million buyers into needing to have her new book with poems inspired by her rape.

A bunch of retarded girls I know through doing musicals have started writing poetry in her style, and there is very little more entertaining than laughing at that shit.

>>12304297

taking a shit is completely normal too but you wouldn't want people walking around with shit in their pants. nobody is shaming anyone for having a period, just take care of it and fucking move on.

>>12304484
are you equating a beautiful creative system of human sexuality to literal release of shit
are you pro choice or something?

>>12304492
Are you stating that the literal release of shit is not part of the beauty of the human digestive system? Are you an atheist or something?

>>12304492

a period is literally the body ejecting waste.

>>12304523
im talking about the entire human reproductive system of which menstruation is an integral part
>>12304513
it is not creative and doesnt hold nearly the level of importance or aesthetics so no

>>12304532
>doesnt hold nearly the level of importance
That is just ignorant. Without defecation, the human form dies rapidly. Try it. Stop shitting for just one month - one short month - and then get back to me about how unnecessary it is.

>>12304543
its not creative therefore it does not it merely continues the process which wouldnt even be possible without reproduction, just like any other lesser process wouldnt be possible

>>12304551
>its not creative
i bet there are some modern artists who would disagree with you

>>12304551
Human reproduction is not possible without life. Without a functioning digestive system, a human being dies very early - never reaching maturity, therefore never reproducing.

>>12304569
digestive system is secondary, reproductive precedes it

>>12304578
Chicken vs. egg. I posit that, without the chicken, there is no egg. Without reproduction, the human specie ends at the end of the generation. Without defecation, the human specie dies within months - if not earlier.

>>12304563
Let's not forget Piss Christ. I would like to have seen the reaction if Serrano had done this with a Star of David instead.

>>12304601
wrong because digestion is one among many of comparable importance in comparison to single reproduction which creates life which does those things
maintenance is less important than creation of something

>>12304611
>a beautiful creative system of human sexuality
Do you find pic related to be beautiful art?

>>12304532
>>im talking about the entire human reproductive system of which shittiing is an integral part

>>12304640
>>im talking about the entire human shitting system of which reproduction is an integral part

>>12295557
There's something wrong with the West and its women.

>>12304650
This is the natural condition of women when they are left to their own devices.

>>12304640
How else are you going to birth that buttbaby out of that boipucci?

>>12295550
any polacks care to translate

>>12295550
>>12304745
... that I would touch him, that I would feed him,
that I would tame him, that I would hide him,
that I would protect him, that I would open him,
that he would dream of me,
that I would stop him.
I thought that I would save him.

>>12305137
Reminds me of that guy that was obsessed with a tripfag on /sp/. Does anyone have that file still? The one where he talks about keeping him and trying to help get used to seeing his naked body.

>>12294810
would power fuck her ass while she recites her poems
would titty fuck her tittays while she writes new poems
would power shoot cum in her face and call it my poem

>>12295700
>The Instagram Poet Outselling Homer Ten to One
I almost gagged reading that.

>>12305401
v n

>>12305451
?

>>12305460
apologies bro im drunk amd i meant to say very nice as in bice opinion also phone posting oit here on the tiniest of phones mate

>>12304578
Incorrect.

Humans (deuterostomes) develope in the womb anus first. Then guttube. Then everything else. Reproduction does not have primacy; puberty takes a decade to kick in, but digestion, 12 hours.

Also, even lifelong Incels shit.

>>12304611
>Arbitrary value assiged to creation.
Bias.

>Reproduction defined as creation
Re-production, as in, a reboot of a working original. Its not really creation; its 98% a gene shuffle of old stuff.

I showed a female friend of mine, who is a massive rupi Kaur fan, a couple of screenshots from this thread and now she's crying. Good job /lit/

>>12304632
abstract "art" is not art, so no
>>12306204
>creation
>arbitrary bias
so you deny the value of human life and existence in general

>>12306707
>talking about 4channel with womyn
ishygddt

>>12306707
Hahaha
Does the redpill make her anus hurt?

>>12304632
Is this loss?

>>12298322
Neruda

>>12295527
Accurate post. Don't mind the self-righteous fools with the inflated egos here, its nice to see a glimmer of logic in this shit board

she's an effective art hoe filter

I'm harmed by this place:
One of my female friends was reading her in class and I cringed visibly... I nearly laughed aloud...

>>12294810
She is as skilled a writer as Nael

Could beat that brown sugar pussy into cake

>>12309755
I once wrote an unironic love poem about; this amazing girl who were beautiful and intelligent and I looked into her eyes with glimmering love, but then I found out that she reads Kaur, so nevermind...

This is how bad Kaur is.

>>12294810

She has managed to attain prestigeousness and wealth with minimal effort. Even though she’s a fraudulent cow, she is a shrewd entrepreneur - that cannot be denied.

>>12294924
> outside of that

she will be forgotten by history

>>12309777
>she reads Kaur

*dick gets even harder*

>>12306707
Very good job /lit. Rupi Kaur fans shoud be persuectioned as cancer of literature

>>12300203
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-life-of-an-instagram-poet/amp

>As Poe might have said, sorrow sells
The article is trash journalism. If you're going to build up a theme comparing some generic trash to Poe, you should at least be aware that Poe lived in abject poverty most of his life.

>>12304267
You have a wife, anon? That's so cute, and you're very lucky. Cherish her, not all men are so fortunate as to have a wife like you.

>>12296995
japanese women != western women

>>12294810
she qt

>>12298421
There once was a poet named Kaur,
Who threw artistic merit out the door,
She came over from India,
Made some poems like "Cynthia",
And left us with a foul smelling floor.

she prob has a tight puss

>>12306757
>so you deny the value of human life and existence in general
Not him, but he seems to imply that the act of creation is something greater than us that is remote to our control - not that there is no value, just that we are not responsible for the creation of the value.

>>12306707
Please, screencap what you showed her. I want to see if I am in it.

>>12305149
https://archive.org/stream/4chanSpUTVFanEverythingPDF/4chan%20sp%20UTV%20fan%20'Everything%20PDF'_djvu.txt
the philmarillion, ladies and gentleman.

>>12307896
Nah, pic related is what loss looks like.

The Van Gogh of poetry minus the actual work put into art.

>>12312636
more like the Paulo Coelho of poetry
Van Gogh was amazing, it's not his fault basic arthoes wear socks with his paintings