The Whole by Contemplation of a Single Bone: Poems by Nancy K PearsonPoet's Wikipedia Page Publisher's Website (Book Page) Amazon (UK) Amazon.com I was given this ARC by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Fordham University Press (ebook), expected publication date 1 April 2016
104 Pages
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 the question, "don'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.
SELENE'S HORSE
I asked James
Can you feel you're dying?
The Whole by Contemplation of a Single Bone is a striking, starling collection of poems. The poems are just the right shade of dark for me. I loved every poem in this collection. I thought about the poems and the themes when I wasn't reading it. Some poems stayed in my head for days. This collection reminds me of the poems of one of my favourite writers, Joyce Carol Oates. I really liked the fact the poems are written in different styles and forms so every page was a surprise.
