Rupi Kaur

In keeping with the genre of confessional poetry, Kaur herself is the speaker of each poem, confessing the journey of her personal life from wilting to falling, from falling to rooting, from rooting to rising, and from rising to blooming. In “wilting,” Kaur is intensely broken, writing “on the last day of love / my heart cracked inside my body” (13). Kaur begins her collection on a note of despair and decay, introducing herself as a person recovering from a traumatic relationship. Throughout “wilting,” Kaur struggles with her painful past, wondering throughout “how do I turn around and chose myself” in the midst of her uncertainty (49). In “falling,” Kaur gives more explicit detail as to what about her past was painful: she reveals that in the past, she had been raped, and that her former lover left her without an explanation. Kaur also reveals that her in childhood, she...