The Whole by Contemplation of a Single BoneIn 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 pasta past shadowed by depression, addiction, and misdiagnosis. Pearson refuses to end in a place of relief, asking, [D]ont we all fall into aggregate darkness for something? Instead, her poems meditate on the lyric of absence and fragmentation. Pearsons poems