A review by buttondragon
Empty Bottles Full of Stories by r.h. Sin, Robert M. Drake

sad slow-paced

0.5

Grabbed this from my work book swap to try to read more poetry and I feel like I took psychic damage from reading this. These poems all read like first drafts from high schoolers in an intro to creative writing class who are deep in the trenches of teenage heartbreak. The line and stanza breaks don’t inform the works much at all, repetition is used at times on purpose and other times because it seems like neither poet can come up with another word for “love” or “broken”, and it seems like every poem in the back half are about shitty relationships, which while relatable for many, feels more like listening to your drunk friend whine than a poem. Overall, a collection of surface-level and unimaginative poems about heartbreak and… well that’s most of them.