YOU WILL ENTER TRUSTING YOUR EYES. THE BOOK WILL TAKE IT FROM THERE. There was an easier way through. This is the doorway. The Way That Broken Things See: Selected Poems 35 poems. Three movements. Some things only exist because something broke. TWO EDITIONS. TWO WAYS THROUGH. Selected Poems — the concentrated journey. Complete Edition — the entire architecture. Choose your way through. What happens when fracture changes not only what you feel—but what you are able to see? The Way That Broken Things See: Selected Poems is the concentrated form of C. C. Vale’s poetic debut—a journey through survival, fractured identity, buried memory, altered perception, and return. Across three interconnected poetic movements, these poems enter the architecture of survival: the rooms the body remembers, the voices it inherits, and the strange inner worlds it creates to endure what cannot yet be named. From intimate confession to surreal fable, from broken houses and damaged machinery to thawing landscapes and impossible visions, the collection gives physical form to experiences that often resist ordinary language. But this is not only a book about damage. It is about what becomes visible when survival stops being the whole story—when tenderness is no longer mistaken for weakness, when identity begins to return to its owner, and when fracture itself becomes another way of seeing. Selected Poems gathers the book’s central sequence into a focused three-part journey. It stands as a complete work in its own right—and as the clearest doorway into the larger world of The Way That Broken Things See.