Lyrical and Surreal Keeper of the Original Sound by Crystal Clenney is an inventive poetry ride into the vivid real and lyrical surreal. A magnetic new voice on the poetry scene, Clenney’s ingenious poetry rewards the reader with a penchant for surprise. Like finding buried treasure in plain sight, this stunning collection of poetry will lead you on inspiring explorations into the expansive, begging-to-be-expressed inner worlds available to us all. Clenney invites us to ponder being “a weaver, dismantling broken webs” and to consider wind as starlight’s “galactic breath.” She then suggests we may present “screwed in faces” with “sills leaking,” before reflecting on “what happens when the spider returns,” or the discovery of “squatters, squandering, body rent so cheap, no wonder they stay.” This first book of original poetry is sure to astonish and rattle loose locked-up jewels seeking to be discovered. You read it first to get the sense, then again to find the feel, and yet again to see what else can be revealed, each time anew. Treat yourself, or another lucky reader, to this collection of raw and eccentric poems, each a key to unlocking your own hidden reflections and feelings you have yet been able to name, much less tame.