Her environment growing up led to her developing what she deemed "constant survival mode". As a young child she witnessed relatives and friends experience domestic violence or sexual abuse watching her parents be subject to racism, she inferred, resulted in her coy disposition. Her relationship with her parents, in particular her mother, become turbulent in her adolescence there were extensive arguments over mundane activities that Kaur later interpreted as a result of wishing to preserve their original culture. Her mother was occasionally distant to Kaur, as a result of her family and culture, particularly when Kaur was on her period menstruating, alongside her childhood abuse, often left Kaur debilitated. Kaur was generally self-conscious about her identity. As a child, Kaur would find herself embarrassed by her mother's accent and try to distance herself. Also, Kaur recalled that poetry was a recurrent aspect of her faith, spirituality and everyday life: "There were evenings when my dad would sit around for hours, analyzing a single verse for hours". Her mother wanted to instill this art in her since it was so close to home. At the age of five, Kaur was compelled to take up her mother's hobby of painting she was given a paintbrush and forced to draw.
When her father lived in Japan he'd write Punjabi poetry to Kaur's mother, who practiced painting. Her family eventually settled in Brampton, Ontario, alongside a large South Asian diaspora community, while Kaur's father worked as a truck driver.
She lived with her parents and three younger siblings in a one-bedroom basement flat, where they slept in the same bed. Due to financial instability, he would send back supplies suitable for Kaur and her upbringing. Her father had left before and wasn't present for Kaur's birth. At age three, she emigrated to Canada with her parents.
Kaur was born into a Sikh family in Punjab, India, on 4 October 1992. Kaur has been included on congratulatory year-end lists by the BBC and Elle The New Republic controversially called her the "Writer of the Decade". Kaur's poetry has had mixed critical reception: she has been praised for influencing the modern poetry scene, but has also been subject to parody and faced accusations of plagiarism by fellow poets. Since its release in 2014, her collection Milk and Honey has sold over 2.5 million copies in 25 languages, spending 77 weeks on the New York Times Best-Seller List. Kaur has a large social media following, particularly on Instagram. Her third collection, Home Body (2020), is influenced by a desire to feel less pressure for commercial success and the COVID-19 pandemic. Line drawings accompany her poetry with stark subject matters.Īfter the success of Milk and Honey, Kaur describes struggling throughout the creation of her second collection, The Sun and Her Flowers (2017). Her childhood and personal life serve as sources of inspiration. Considered to be at the forefront of the " Instapoetry" style, Kaur's work is simplistic in language and explores South Asian identity, immigration, and femininity. As a result of the incident, Kaur's poetry gained more traction and her initially self-published debut poetry collection, Milk and Honey (2014), was reprinted to widespread commercial success. Instagram removed the image, in response to which Kaur wrote a viral critique of the company's actions.
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In March 2015, as a part of her university photography project, Kaur posted a series of photographs to Instagram depicting herself with menstrual blood stains on her clothing and bedsheets. She began performing poetry in 2009 and rose to fame on Instagram, eventually becoming a popular poet through her three collections of poetry. Born in Punjab, India, Kaur emigrated to Canada at a young age with her family. Rupi Kaur (born 4 October 1992) is a Canadian poet, illustrator, photographer, and author. Author, poet, artist, illustrator, performer
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