Full Description
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.
Contents
[one] [selene's horse] [molasses] [apology] [sandy mush, nc] [lullaby] [there was no horse] [erwin boyd] [blackwater] [the painter] [early peas] [hardwoods] [poke sallet] [abrams creek] [telemetry] [not a drop] [cast yourself unwanted] [intransitive verb] [earthworm] [diagnosis] [scenes 1 & 2: incidence code 1X] [starling] [wasp] [withdrawal] [out & back] [two] [provincelands] [sand] [bird in space] [bonewax] [what's this blue called] [houston] [opening day] [the whole by contemplation of a single bone] [the diagnosis] [discourse] [secretariat] [mining] [daylilies] [sunflower, provincetown] [houston] [reader,] [waiver] [first you erased your facebook page] [afterword] [archive] [three] [left for dead] [documents] [it was a swell fiesta] [harris's color wheel] [margalo] [blackberries] [aphasia] [disfluencies] [eulogy] [honey] [hungers] 79 [mirrors] 80 [moons] 81 [lichen] 82 [brazos bend] 83 [generations] 84 [and yet] 86 [north star] 87 [notes] 88
