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As part of this year's exploration of poetry, I checked this book out of the library. At first, I wasn't enthused because I had no desire to read about a break up, BUT this collection of poems opened up in such lovely ways. Kaur's work is accessible, beautiful, and a meaningful look at her life as a woman/immigrant daughter/student of life.

A few I liked:

perhaps we are all immigrants
trading one home for another
first we leave the womb for air
then the suburbs for the filthy city
in search of a better life
some of us just happen to leave entire countries

learning to not envy
someone else's blessings
is what grace looks like

if you have never
stood with the oppressed
there's still time
-lift them