The Whole by Contemplation of a Single Bone: Poems

In this, her second collection of poetry, Nancy K. Pearson explores the possibilities of recovery and transformation in a world where "words cease to matter." The speaker attempts to reconcile the past--a past shadowed by depression, addiction, and misdiagnosis. Pearson refuses to end in a place of relief, asking, "[D]on't we all / fall into aggregate darkness / for something?" Instead, her poems meditate on the lyric of absence and fragmentation. Pearson's poems are restless, unsettling, and revelatory.

Author: Nancy K. Pearson
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 04/01/2016
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780823271177

Review Citation(s):
Foreword 05/26/2016

About the Author

Nancy K. Pearson's first book of poems, Two Minutes of Light, received the L. L. Winship / PEN New England award and was named a "Must Read Book" at the 2009 Annual Massachusetts
Book Awards. Pearson recently taught poetry at the University of Houston and now lives in Maryland with her partner.