{"product_id":"that-broke-into-shining-crystals-9780571391318","title":"That Broke Into Shining Crystals","description":"\u003cb\u003eReverberating with risk, this collection negotiates the darkness of injury, the potency and pain of revelation, and agency as song.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTrauma 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Faber \u0026amp; Faber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/22\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780571391318\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80","brand":"Richard Scott","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45276386492597,"sku":"9780571391318","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_60c361d6-4369-42de-a432-a149d66c2b0d.jpg?v=1744123042","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/that-broke-into-shining-crystals-9780571391318","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}