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ryliereadss's review
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
4.5
Collins is an incredibly talented poet and this poetry collection is so heartbreaking. He very effectively illustrates the sadness one feels when a parent passes away and the emotions after. So impactful.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death of parent
sadkitty's review
5.0
Autopsy is a collection of poems focusing mainly on the themes of grief and loss.
The poems are in a way, unusual. They don't make me feel like they're just poems. It's like reading a person's thoughts as they go over something.
The lines are vague and yet everything makes sense altogether. The emotions are raw and unforgiving and the individual poems are just too brilliant.
What I loved the most about this collection of poetry is that the author did not try to make it digestible. They stick to its core and did not include poems that had nothing to with the theme. There weren't any poems that were thrown into this collection just because the author wanted to make it lighter.
Every word was a spark and the author was right to not let the light hearted poems water it down. Because otherwise, it would have been similar to the other books that come and go and remain forgotten unless someone suddenly remembers that they had read a poetry book.
Autopsy is the kind of a book that finds the gas inside your soul and lights your spark.
I had read somewhere that if it doesn't make you feel something, it's not art. It's not poetry.
And this collection made me feel a myriad of emotions with minimal usage of words.
If this isn't poetry, I don't know what it.
10/10 Must Read
The poems are in a way, unusual. They don't make me feel like they're just poems. It's like reading a person's thoughts as they go over something.
The lines are vague and yet everything makes sense altogether. The emotions are raw and unforgiving and the individual poems are just too brilliant.
What I loved the most about this collection of poetry is that the author did not try to make it digestible. They stick to its core and did not include poems that had nothing to with the theme. There weren't any poems that were thrown into this collection just because the author wanted to make it lighter.
Every word was a spark and the author was right to not let the light hearted poems water it down. Because otherwise, it would have been similar to the other books that come and go and remain forgotten unless someone suddenly remembers that they had read a poetry book.
Autopsy is the kind of a book that finds the gas inside your soul and lights your spark.
I had read somewhere that if it doesn't make you feel something, it's not art. It's not poetry.
And this collection made me feel a myriad of emotions with minimal usage of words.
If this isn't poetry, I don't know what it.
10/10 Must Read
adam75241's review
5.0
Some of these poems are good, some of them are better than good, but let met me just say, a few of these bad boys (particularly “Whiteness Shops for a Prayer” and “The Orphan Dines with Ghosts”) punched me in the face and left my teeth on the floor.
kay_nutt's review
5.0
What a stunning, heartbreaking, and resilient reflection on grief, death, and blackness. The exploration of identity is so raw and eloquent. It simultaneously broke my heart to read and also gave me hope and put words to some of my own grieving. Donte Collins is an exceptional young writer and I look forward to/hope to read more of his work.
historyoftape's review
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.5
I think I wanted to like this book a lot more than I did. Don't get me wrong, Donte clearly knows what they are doing, the poems have great form & amazing imagery and emotional messages, but I just really struggled to connect with them personally. Until I got to 'five stages of grief', at which point I was hooked. Donte really knows how to use form, repetition, and even the singular letters that make up words to create amazing poems. It's a very high level skillwise, I'm only giving it this rating because 3/4 were a bit of a struggle for me to get through, personally.
haleyhamfan's review
5.0
What an insanely powerful collection. These poems made me ache with grief. It was hard to breathe sometimes. Donte is exceptional. A work about grief, simply, but much more than that, a man burying himself in it.
ssinforshort's review
5.0
This collection is small and weighted. It is beautiful, and you will feel it.