Sierra Nelson's poems are hypotheses of the evanescent world – its evaporations and evasions, its silences and speeches. “All ears, all eyes, all senses at attention,” Nelson examines the tenuous tentacles that connect humans, plants, and animals, that tether us to the past – detailing the surreptitiousness of joy, the necessity of loss, how a body is changed by everything it encounters. Line by line
The Lachrymose Report
reveals how language, like feeling, originates deep in every cell, even as the wonder of these poems unfolds on an evolutionary scale.