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That Broke Into Shining Crystals

That Broke Into Shining Crystals

Scott, Richard

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 0571391311
ISBN13: 9780571391318
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: Apr 22 2025
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.40 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
Reverberating with risk, this collection negotiates the darkness of injury, the potency and pain of revelation, and agency as song.

Trauma and vulnerability - violation and its aftershock - are explored within a framework of self-determination and radical queerness in Richard Scott's second collection. In three distinct yet interlocking parts, he documents what it is to have survived 'seismic assaults, the buried silences'. This is first pursued through still-life paintings: controlled arrangements in which time is frozen. In 'Coy', the lexicon of Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress' is repurposed to enact the collapse of language under the pressure of description. In the luminous title sequence, crystals and gemstones evoke themes of fracture and fixative, demonstrating Scott's power as a poet who casts an uncompromising but ultimately uplifting light.

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