YOU WILL ENTER TRUSTING YOUR EYES. THE BOOK WILL TAKE IT FROM THERE. There was an easier way through. It’s broken now. The Way That Broken Things See: Complete Edition 97 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 the thing that broke you becomes the place from which you finally learn to see? The Way That Broken Things See: Complete Edition is the full, expansive form of C. C. Vale’s poetic debut—a journey through survival, fractured identity, buried memory, and the slow recovery of a self that was never truly destroyed. Across three interconnected poetic movements, the collection enters 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 ruined houses and broken machinery to thawing landscapes and impossible cities, these poems give physical form to experiences that often resist ordinary language. But this is not only a book about damage. It is about what happens when survival stops being the whole story—when tenderness is no longer mistaken for weakness, when identity is reclaimed from those who tried to define it, and when fracture itself becomes a different way of seeing. The Complete Edition presents the work in its fullest intended architecture, including the broader emotional, narrative, and imaginative landscape beyond the Selected Poems edition. It is for readers who want to enter the entire world of the book: its quieter rooms, stranger visions, recurring figures, and the gradual transformation unfolding across the complete sequence.