The Whole by Contemplation of a Single Bone: Poems

by Nancy K. Pearson

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082327117X
• ISBN13: 9780823271177
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"