Autopsy
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Named the Most Promising Young Poet in the country by the Academy of American Poets, Collins's work has consistently wowed audiences. Autopsy propels that work onto the national stage. In the words of the author, the book is a spring thaw -- the new life alongside the old, the good cry and the release after.
Donte Collins
Donte is a 21-year-old queer, black poet. Named the first Youth Poet Laureate of Saint Paul, Minnesota, they are the author of Autopsy (Button Poetry) and winner of the 2016 Most Promising Young Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets. They are an alum of TruArtSpeaks, as well as a current board member of Black Table Arts. Donte resides in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where they hibernate during the winter and seriously consider purchasing a warmer yet less fashionable jacket.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Una poesía potente, desgarradora y bella. Collins comparte su dolor ante la muerte de su madre, la cual lo lleva a explorar su ser en el mundo: su homosexualidad y el deseo, su adopción, su relación con su madre, el racismo. Exploración que hace a la par que busca las formas óptimas para comunicar su emoción, en este sentido es admirable el dominio que tiene del lenguaje y la forma (dada su juventud). Un libro que me sumergió por completo en el mundo poético que Collins crea, en el que hace llorar junto con él.
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Autopsy - Donte Collins
Author
DON’T TELL YOUR UBER DRIVER YOU’RE GOING TO AN ORGY
besides, her name is diane & she only has this job
because her niece says she should be more social
do not, nervously, try to cover up your mistake by
saying you meant b-oar-d mee-tin-g. besides, it’s
3 a.m. & the only things open this late
can
also
request
another
thing
to
open
do not try to cancel the ride. it is not your account. those who
sent for your body were kind enough to pay the $15.50 it took
for you to arrive. your nails are already too jagged to chew on
you’ve produced enough sweat to fill the vehicle & drown
you both. you consider headphones. you consider ripping out
your tongue in fear of confessing more & before you reach for
the handle to tuck & roll clean out of her 2004 Honda Civic
she says:
how many
bodies will you try on tonight / & suddenly she is your mother
or her ghost
& suddenly your blood stiffens / retreats / rewinds / no one died
the casket
is still just wood / unchopped / reassembled / the tree, resurrected
working &
grief is not yet a garden of thorns blooming
in your chest
& grief is not yet a question you’ve answered with sex
the slow
teasing out of sweat like loose thread unraveling
your sadness
& look: you’re just a boy / grieving until he too is a thing
to grieve / until
his pulse is as thin & damp as an obituary panting beneath quaking
hands & what
is an orgy, if not the opposite
of a funeral, if not an attempt to
press your
pulse to as many strangers as possible: to compare
how alive
you still are. & isn’t the car now your mother’s hearse / parading
her body
to that freshly gutted plot of earth & suddenly you are the driver
/ suddenly
the sky breaks a sweat / its whole body blue & ballooning wet
but you’re also the casket
but you’re also the soggy grave parting its