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The Fractured World by Scott Owens deserves to be widely read both for its poetic and its social worth. These poems—so much more than a story of coming of age—are liberating. Throughout the book, the poet’s language is accessible. The poems speak even to those who do not read much poetry. The one depressing aspect is knowing that there are countless abused children who are not liberated—that we live in a “fractured world.” Wounded people inhabit the earth. Heaviness of subject can lead toward emotional release, good mental health, and social responsibility both for poet and readers. Maybe Scott Owens poems can lead us closer to an acceptance of children as fully human. Maybe this gifted poet—now in the early stages of his publishing career—can be literary success and a social one, too. My feeling is, Owens would like that.

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