That Broke Into Shining Crystals
Poetry Book Society Choice Spring 2025
John Fennelly erotically charged and heart-breaking

erotically charged and heart-breaking

and internationally

nuanced and mordant

I’m particularly struck by how the themes echo each other in an unforced way throughout

‘The radioactive spider that bit Chen Chen (isn’t that how first books get made

That Broke Into Shining Crystals<br><b>Poetry Book Society Choice Spring 2025</b><br> John Fennelly erotically charged and heart-breakingFor years I had no sound but his sweetness, his lye. Thus I go slow. I song last. Least. The lower. That which I had nor sound I may still 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 sequences, he documents what it is to have survived 'seismic assaults, the buried silences'. This is first pursued through still life