![]() ![]() ![]() Milk and vine did not disappoint worth all 99 pennies 12/10 recommend. Milk and Vine takes quotes from some of the internet’s most iconic Vines and turns them into Rupi Kaur–esque poetry using seemingly random italicization, shaky hand drawings, and a whole lot of white space. ![]() Vines, the six-second looping videos of the now-defunct app. Unlike Rupi Kaur’s well-lauded prose, the hyperminimalist, three-to-four-line poems that grace the pages of Milk and Vine don’t paint scenes of breakups or moments of personal growth, but instead engage the reader by alluding to an entirely different - yet equally universal - experience: Vines. However, for the two books, that’s about where the resemblance stops. Every inch practically screams: This was made to go on your Tumblr feed!!! The Times New Roman font (still totally without punctuation or capitalization, of course) is occasionally accompanied by a small sketch. ![]() Inside it’s more of the same, sparse pages with just a few lines of poetry - if you can even call it that - surrounded by wide expanses of white space. (The latter is described on Amazon as “a collection of poetry and prose about survival.”) Both are matte black, with uncapitalized white Times New Roman font gracing their covers and feature a nature-inspired line-drawing on the bottom half. At first glance, it’s pretty easy to mistake Milk and Vine for the Instagram-famous poetry book Milk and Honey. ![]()
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