That Broke Into Shining Crystals
Poetry Book Society Choice Spring 2025
Victoria Kennefick Wilson combines a deceptively light

Wilson combines a deceptively light touch with hard-earned palpable depth

disintegration

It’s an exhilarating

Threaded with internal dialogue

In his later collection

That Broke Into Shining Crystals<br><b>Poetry Book Society Choice Spring 2025</b><br> Victoria Kennefick Wilson combines a deceptively lightFor 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