Pressure Cooker Love Bomb

by Sharanpal Ruprai

Poems masquerading as recipes, poems masquerading as survival guides, poems simmered in love, Pressure Cooker Love Bomb is a humorous collection of poems. Ruprai’s second collection is infused with intense sexuality, racial tensions, and questions of gender conformity. With various textures of poems, the collection reads as woman of colour’s manifesto with instructions.

Genres: Poetry

80 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2019

Reviews

[Melissa S · Rating 4 out of 5]

I don't read very much poetry, but I won this slim volume and devoured it in a few hours. Devoured is a good word, too, because many of the poems have food and cooking as a jumping off point to explore the lives and loves and pressures and cultural challenges of "Sikh women on the prairies." I may not be the target audience, but I enjoyed the poems and learned a lot of new vocabulary and, I hope, gained a little bit of insight in the process. :-)

[Donutbrisket · Rating 4 out of 5]

Paulina gave me this book as a gift. Poems in the shape of recipes, Canadian author Sharanpal Ruprai does an incredible job executing this concept while exploring family, race, queerness, love and life in the prairies. Very cool.

One of my favourite lines:
“Love knows how love set on low marinates and cures”