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3.61 AVERAGE
3.61 AVERAGE
Decent Enough
I was pretty disappointed with this collection. Most of the poems were more like sentences and could have been pulled from anywhere. It wasn't very poetic or thought out for the most part.
I was pretty disappointed with this collection. Most of the poems were more like sentences and could have been pulled from anywhere. It wasn't very poetic or thought out for the most part.
I am in the worst reading slump I have ever been in so because of that I want to give this book a fair shot later
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
I will never have anything negative to say about r.h. Sin. His poems are quite honestly the most relatable poems I have ever met. Even though I am currently in a healthy place mentally, I still found myself being able to relate to multiple works in this collection. My favorite poems include "sine sensu", "4:23:08 p.m.", and "anima II". I will continue to read Sin's poetry and I suggest you do yourself a favor and read some too.
I found this book to be supremely disappointing, given the acclaim I’ve heard regarding R.H. Sin’s talent. To begin - I love poetry. I love free verse poetry. Poetry without any punctuation whatsoever isn’t art - it’s laziness. His periodic use of rhyme is half-hearted. Some of his poems aren’t really poems, but random thoughts, and he writes the same thing over and over. There’s no real structure to the order of poems in the book. R. H. Sin is a self-proclaimed feminist poet, but I found this label to be a falsehood. As a man, writing from the perspective of women/ describing how you believe women should feel regarding their relationships doesn’t make you a feminist - it makes you the author of pretentious platitudes (I saw another reviewer use the word “platitudes” to describe this book, and I found it extremely apt). Finally, Sin often goes into detail about how incredible his work is, and how the people no longer in his life will miss him because he’s the best thing that ever happened to them. He even talks about how amazing he is at sex. It’s very self-serving, and I did not like his tone. I look forward to reading his other poetry, and I hope they will be more well thought-out representations of his work.
I waffled a lot on this one, between 3 and 2.
TL;DR - strongest when speaking from his own pain rather than for another gender.
Some really poignant and pointed poems, short and sweet. As in:
potion.
she refused to be anyone's cup of tea
she was more so the finest glasses of whiskey
He writes spot on of pain and broken relationships.
Weaknesses:
Needed stronger editing. A couple times a poem was just a couple lines off of an earlier poem, would have been strengthened by placing them right after each other or eliminating one. In general it felt repetitive.
Finally, he speaks FOR women a couple of times in ways that just rubbed me wrong. The tone of "Now let me tell you how to appreciate a strong woman.." just could have done without.
As in:
kingless.
she's single
which makes her
a kingless queen
and that's okay
Um...nope. She's not "less" anything. She's complete as she is.
TL;DR - strongest when speaking from his own pain rather than for another gender.
Some really poignant and pointed poems, short and sweet. As in:
potion.
she refused to be anyone's cup of tea
she was more so the finest glasses of whiskey
He writes spot on of pain and broken relationships.
Weaknesses:
Needed stronger editing. A couple times a poem was just a couple lines off of an earlier poem, would have been strengthened by placing them right after each other or eliminating one. In general it felt repetitive.
Finally, he speaks FOR women a couple of times in ways that just rubbed me wrong. The tone of "Now let me tell you how to appreciate a strong woman.." just could have done without.
As in:
kingless.
she's single
which makes her
a kingless queen
and that's okay
Um...nope. She's not "less" anything. She's complete as she is.
This is a great book. This was my first time reading Sin’s work, and I wasn’t disappointed. I love the thought and the power that he evoked into his work. I can’t wait to read more of his books. I would recommend this to someone going through a rough patch because it’s very empowering.
I really do appreciate what Andrews McMeel does for young, fresh poets like this--I gave Rupi Kaur's "Milk and Honey" 5 stars without even really considering it a great work of poetry. What it does for teenage girls is invaluable, it feels so universal, and the fact that the bookstore where I work has sold so many copies to young women makes me hopeful for this movement of self-love.
This book, however, is a bland imitation of that, and I can't for the life of me remember a single word from half an hour of reading this in Barnes & Noble. Maybe in another book of Sin's this is successful, but the badass cover art doesn't even save this from feeling like 3am iPhone notes you wake up and delete.
This book, however, is a bland imitation of that, and I can't for the life of me remember a single word from half an hour of reading this in Barnes & Noble. Maybe in another book of Sin's this is successful, but the badass cover art doesn't even save this from feeling like 3am iPhone notes you wake up and delete.
I think my problem was that some of the poems felt like some on the previous books, but others were really good.
