Rupi Kaur's path to her third book of poetry 'Home body" 

New York Times bestselling poet and illustrator Rupi Kaur is on her third collection of published poems. After her success with 'Milk and honey' and 'The sun and her flowers', last November 17th she published her new work entitled 'Home body'.  

At 28 years of age, the poet has managed to sell more than eight million copies of her work, which has been translated into more than 42 different languages. Her career began in social networks; at first, she published in Tumblr anonymously and then she started to spread her work in Instagram, where she already signed with her own name. Shortly after sharing her poems in this way, she began incorporating illustrations into them, drawing the attention of many of her readers.  

This made her influence to grow daily until she published her first collection of poems in 2014. The original title of this collection is 'Milk and honey'. Later, in 2016, she launched a novel that would be her second book, 'One NRI Girl' being a different genre than the one her readers are used to reading. 'The sun and her flowers' came to life in 2017 and this was her second book of poetry. In 2020, to celebrate International Women's Day, she released a series of poems entitled the hashtag of the #MeToo movement. Now, she has surprised the world with 'Home body', her third collection of poems.   

In all her books we find a clear influence of everything that surrounds the writer, from the culture she comes from to the one she has adopted in a foreign country. Her most frequently discussed topics are love, self-esteem, heartbreak, family, home, and grief, among many others. These are dealt with from a feminine and feminist perspective, in which there is a great weight of denunciation towards society.   

Rupi Kaur was born on October 4, 1992 in Punjab, India, but at the age of four she emigrated with her parents to Canada, where she lived all her life. Here she studied rhetoric and writing at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, where she asked a professor to help her publish books and he told her not to bother. This anecdote marked a turning point in her life, but it did not make her to give up, quite the contrary. She self-published her book through CreateSpace, after many failed attempts to send her poems individually to anthologies, magazines and newspapers.  

When she managed to publish her books, they had a great impact. If anything already differentiated her from other poets, it was her short poems. They are characterized by the omission of punctuation marks, she only uses the period, along with illustrations made by herself. So the aesthetics are not only in her verses, but also in her drawings. 

The message of her poetry is clear and concise, it does not use complicated and unintelligible language. In comparison with recent publications, such as 'I would leave me if I could' by artist Ashley Frangipane, whose stage name is Halsey, Rupi Kaur stands out for simplicity. In Halsey's work we can find similar themes to those of Kaur, but the difference is in the complex way in which Halsey writes. In Rupi's poems there is coherence and connection between the beginning and the end, something we do not see in Halsey's verses.   

As for Spanish poetry, we find many poets who deal with similar themes to those of Kaur. In this case, in the works of Elvira Sastre, individualism is what makes the difference between her and the Canadian poet. Rupi Kaur, however, writes from a general perspective in which she talks about society as a whole.  

All these differences and similarities between Rupi Kaur and other writers make her pieces unique. In addition to the originality of her illustrations and short poems, as previously mentioned, she addresses issues that can affect any reader and help him / her to overcome the same duels. Her books are, without a doubt, the best tool for reflection.