A lyric essay about young love and loss and the aftermath of a former lovers suicide. Landsickness explores the inelegant progress of grief and pursues a relentless search for evidence of the beloveds presence through the physics of splashes the history of seasickness and the science of depression. While full of tenderness the poems employ humor and honesty to observe the ugliness of grief and the failure of elegy to restore the dead.ampnbsp From the funeral to the office of her deadend job to navigating the streets of New York the speaker experiences a series of false starts as she learns to cope with her new life. Still there is a real sense of progression in the collections end even as the speaker continues to ask herself Why am I obsessed with the physics of his fall ampnbsp