Spring 2019;

I did a solid bowl through a ton of R.H. Sin about a month ago, so I'm rating all three of these together. I love the private but invited, feel of Sin's confessional poetry, and I love how his voice adds to the confessional poetry wave that is dominated by women, most especially Lang, Loveless, Kaur, and so on.

He brings a different kind of bent to it, from the outside, and it helps me a) the viewpoint of a male looking in on these situations and b) that of a significant other helping a women in these same situations to heal, and how long a process that is, and the kind of grace toward love and your lover, and anger at the world, and want to help others it can leave one with.


I do both find that his poetry gets a bit repetitive in places, and across different books, and do get a little leery when his poems get of a sexual nature, but they are not graphically vulgar and so there is nothing in my rating that has anything to do with that. (In the first instance it was celebratory and it was about all the power still belonging to a woman, but it was a surprise all the same.) It's just an aside that I feel bears some warning to women who are heading into his poetry books. ( )