Poetry. Seeping out of the tightly controlled composition of each poem is a speaker that tentatively but sometimes violently tests the physical confines that surround her. Moments of anger, violence, and resignation move in and out of each poem and work to fracture her speaker's baseline tranquility in the search for connection in a place where distance and alienation prevail. In the poem "Interior Survey" the poem asks, "What is gained from perpetual motion except a kind of sickness, a taut feeling behind my eyes?" MAMMAL ROOM enacts an authentic, universal anxiety about human connection, missed or lost potential, and the terrifying relationship between time and motion. Evans beautifully crafts each poem like a sturdy room, built so perfectly around the wildness and vulnerability of all that lives within.