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.

• [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

"If Nancy Pearson chose to offer life lessons, moralizing, and even a bit of poemtificating about her struggles with meth addiction and depression in this latest collection, we'd forgive her. Indeed, we'd happily climb mountains to read anything she writes." -- Matt Sutherland -Foreword Reviews "Not only one poem but the whole of Nancy K. Pearson's breathtaking second book, The Whole by Contemplation of a Single Bone, presses the question 'Do you understand the urgency?' Urgency hums through this collection like current through an electric fence." -H.L. Hix "So wondrous and happily strange that I had to take breaks in my reading of it to make sure that everything I thought I knew was still the way I remembered it. This is, in the best way, a book about what it means to be surprised." -Michael Klein