A Beautiful Composition of Broken

r.h. Sin is the bestselling author of the three-book collection Whiskey, Words & a Shovel. The first edition sold out quickly and a second and expanded printing of the first book has since been published making it accessible to most readers. Sin created a sensation in American poetry with the release of Whiskey, Words, & a Shovel. Although some may wonder if his work is poetry, in the strictest sense, it did make reading poetry a cool thing again and brought with it a younger generation now eager to explore poetry.

Only a few of Sin's poems are more than a dozen lines. He keeps the word count low and the meaning high. His previous three books were an accolade to Samantha King, his soulmate. This collection offers advice and recognition to those who are suffering in their relationships, lives, and identity. Sin describes his handling of critics to his work and the handling of abuse people. Keeping with his younger audience he includes social media and today's biggest distraction in life:

"mobile distractions."
should’ve held my hand more
instead of your phone

Sin shows the reader that they to have value despite what others may think or say to them. Others must demonstrate their value before they can have an effect on you. Critics, bullies, and malcontents should be kept at a distance and ignored.

"in the ashes of."
burn bridges for warmth
burn bridges for light
burn bridges to others
who don’t deserve
to get to you

In a cross between self-help and contemporary cultural philosophy, Sin uses words and poetry to advise, comfort, and to encourage. Fans of Sin's writing will appreciate this new collection and its different message. For those who haven't read Sin's work, this is an easy volume to slip into and read cover to cover or pull random passages for inspiration or comfort.



Available July 25, 2017

Like every other piece of writing from this poet, their words resonate with my sense of humanity, down to its core! Such talent at capturing raw emotions! Quite simply, everyone should read this.

I enjoyed reading R. H. Sin's poems. Not the first poetry book, definitely not the last one. The language and spirit are young and delightful, even talking about pain and sorrow. I feel the poet's soul, loving, caring and writing done details that touch us in daily lives.

I enjoyed reading the poem entitled "the Internet", and "in poetry.", and so many more. It tells us, inspires us, in a way like a river, flowing through our deep wound. It hurts, but it heals as well.

The poet has a special and keen eye for emotions in life. I'm grateful that there are people with wonderful souls are keeping up.

Going through relationship struggles Sin's poetry always hits me hard, and this one is no different. Some make me think of my love and smile sweetly, thinking of his eyes, his laugh, his kindness, his heart. Others make me weep out of fear for what the future could hold.

The best writing makes us feel, and it makes us feel complicated, conflicting feelings. I loved this so much. <3

It isn't often that a poetry book is written to empower women, to encourage the broken-hearted and to challenge its readers to love themselves more. This is, however, one such book. It urges people to be strong and to not settle for less than they deserve in either a partner or in life. This book highlights the importance of loving yourself and is a positive force in the battle for equality. I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

4/5 stars : highly recommended!

This is the first of Sins books i have read and i will absolutely be getting the rest. They are a master at capturing true, raw emotion with every carefully selected word. An amazing collection.

I received a free e-copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

I loved this collection of poems so very much. As a disclaimer, I have not read much poetry, but it is something I am interested in reading a lot more of. I have not read anything by this author before. This book is described as "meant to remind the wounded that they are, in fact, beautiful in a way society may never comprehend" and it certainly does that.

I bookmarked a little over half of the works in this collection as ones I strongly related to, poems referencing abuse, death, abandonment, betrayal, romantic love, self-love and peace. The overwhelming feeling I had after finishing this work was hope, hope that the world can be a better place, that life can be beautiful, that loss is not always a tragedy, that you will not always be broken. I may not always have interpreted the work the way the author meant, but I found little pieces of myself throughout, and fell in love with the writer's ability to make me feel so profoundly.

This collection is incredibly accessible, without an overwhelming amount of flowery language, metaphor and abstract ideas, the author writes as if putting pen to paper and releasing a stream of consciousness. In so many books of poetry I have been reading lately, I just cannot get a grasp on what the writer means to convey, and I very seldom feel like I can interpret the work accurately. A Beautiful Composition of Broken was a breath of fresh air for someone struggling to break into this genre and unsure what they are looking for.

There are a lot of poems I just could not relate to, but I still found beauty in the work and language used. Perhaps the only pages which jolted me slightly were the ones referencing the writer's critics, those could come across slighty self important and petty at times, outright stating that if you do not enjoy the work then the author is better than you and you are just jealous, which for a book touting the beauty in everyone and the error in treating people unfairly, seems a little hypocritical. While I can understand the anger and frustration at having your work, those very personal pieces of yourself, dismissed or insulted, perhaps the writer should have taken their own advice to rise above. Those are such a small percentage of the entire work though, that I feel like it would be a mistake to not at least pick this book up and experience it for yourself.

I will leave you with the poem I loved the most, which, not surprisingly, is about reading.

read, lover
books stained with the tears
of the reader with the broken heart
books held tight
like lovers in the dark
sometimes all you have are the words
sometimes all that's left
are the books

Even if you don’t immediately recognize the name r.h. Sin, there’s a good chance you’re familiar with his work. His poetry has taken Instagram and the poetry world by storm, popularizing the writing form in a way that the world hasn’t seen in quite some time.

A Beautiful Composition of Broken is r.h. Sin’s sixth collection and serves as an ode to the beautifully broken. His words touch on women finding strength within themselves, the brokenhearted mending their wounds, and the insecure learning to find the confidence they’ve always had.

I had pretty mixed feelings about this collection. On one hand, it felt a little thrown together with no real order or true theme, aside from a few multi-part poems. There was a lot of repetition, and a lot of poems that were really just a few words separated by line breaks. On the other hand, there were several absolutely stellar poems that made me want to shout from the rooftops and tattoo the words across my entire body.

It was definitely worth it for the handful of phenomenal poems, but overall wasn’t my favorite collection.

3 stars.

I was already obsessed with R.H. Sin going in and this book definitely didn't disappoint! I love his raw writing style and I really connect with his poetry. Definitely a must-read for lovers of the written word. Just beautiful.