Through Other I'S: Las Otras,
2012
University of New Orleans
Through Other I'S: Las Otras, Brenda Nettles Riojas
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The “I” speaks in each of the poems presented; but whose I? The collection explores the use of personae, and gives voice to “the other” I’s/las otras, women who came before us and those who walk among us. Sometimes in English, sometimes in Spanish, sometimes the voices cross between languages. Written primarily in free verse, the poems are ordered to allow the mingling of languages from the speakers on the page. Through other eyes, some of the characters revive the past, speak from the grave. They provide a glimpse into what lies beyond the “I.” We hear the …
Two Lyrics From ‘Rondo’,
2012
Boise State University
Collateral: Poems,
2012
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Collateral: Poems, Joshua Jon Robbins
Doctoral Dissertations
In the lyric tradition of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Terrible Sonnets and James Wright’s odes to the Midwest, the poems in Collateral interrogate the complexities of faith and doubt in middle-class America and present a witness compelled to translate suburbia’s landscapes and evangelical banalities into a testimony of hard truths. These poems explore the emotional exhaustion that accompanies language’s broken connection to ideal meaning and how both are unable to fully correspond to our lives. The manuscript is also an exploration of my own corresponding lyric struggle to reconcile what is and what should be, the personal and the political …
The Genius Of A Crow: Poems,
2012
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
The Genius Of A Crow: Poems, Michael Jon Levan Jr.
Doctoral Dissertations
Every age has its troubles, and ours is no different. Military conflict, economic uncertainty, environmental threats, and other serious global concerns shape how many of us greet every new day. These issues, however, are unacknowledged in a growing segment of contemporary American poetry. Too often, some poets neglect what is outside them and instead turn to producing work that is so focused on the poet’s interior life that no one besides the poet him- or herself can possibly enter. But contemporary American poets can find an important influence in postwar Eastern European poets who have risen from one of the …
Remember,
2012
Lindenwood University
Snowflake,
2012
Lindenwood University
20-Sided Die,
2012
Lindenwood University
The Dilemma,
2012
Lindenwood University
The Fairytale,
2012
Lindenwood University
To My Dearest,
2012
Lindenwood University
The Black Lily,
2012
Lindenwood University
Light,
2012
Lindenwood University
I Must Wait,
2012
Lindenwood University
Lolly,
2012
Lindenwood University
The Duel,
2012
Lindenwood University
Treasure In Hand,
2012
Lindenwood University
The Promethean, Volume 20, Bring On The Buzzards, 2012,
2012
Concordia University St. Paul
The Promethean, Volume 20, Bring On The Buzzards, 2012, English Department, Concordia University-Portland
The Promethean
Every year, the staff of The Promethean has the same goals. We want to create a bold journal full of quality literature and artwork. We want to push the limits of both our contributors and our readers. We want to create a memorable journal that Concordia University-Portland can be proud of.
This year, we decided to accomplish these goals by going back to our roots. We decided that we would use the story of Prometheus, our journal's namesake, as our inspiration. Prometheus was a god who saw that humans needed fire to survive. Against the will of the other gods, …
The Pull,
2012
Lindenwood University
Friend,
2012
Lindenwood University
//Poem.Cpp,
2012
Lindenwood University
