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Old Invisible Presence: Nonhuman Intelligence And Artificial Nature In A Coast Of Trees By A. R. Ammons And S*Perm**K*T By Harryette Mullen, Miles Jochem
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
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Asked For Another Mountain, Nichole Lynn Moore
Asked For Another Mountain, Nichole Lynn Moore
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
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Wet Specimen, Abigail Lee Raley
Wet Specimen, Abigail Lee Raley
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Cystic fibrosis is a condition which thickens the mucus throughout the body of the afflicted patient. Bob Flanagan, in his book The Pain Journal, ventures to record that sort of physical experience, as it pertains to the daily practices of his art, leading up to his death. Flanagan expounds on given relationships between his sadomasochistic performance art and the pain of his body in his poem “Why.” Richard Siken, too, in his book Crush, explores the embodied violence of gay lust, love, and obsession. WET SPECIMEN finds itself amongst these traditions, as it ventures to explore the animality …
Theory Of Care, Gabriella Ann Graceffo
Theory Of Care, Gabriella Ann Graceffo
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
With a backdrop of the body and its inner forms, Theory of Care is a collection of poems and lyric excerpts that explores themes of queer sexuality, physical and mental health, etymology, desire, and physicality. It coheres moments of internal reckoning with an exploration of how trauma lives in the body, particularly the queer femme body. By accessing various landscapes including the medical sphere, family dynamics, and the social environments of the South, the collection grapples with different vernaculars to question how the language used to discuss (or dismiss) trauma dramatically alters the perception of those experiences.
Witness This Thing So Tender, Erin Marie White
Witness This Thing So Tender, Erin Marie White
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
At once fantastical and down-to-earth, the poems of Witness This Thing So Tender are concerned with the convergence of the speaker’s many selves and influences. Gritty and mysterious happenings shape the speaker’s physical, emotional, and psychological circumstances in the world. Whether the triggering topic is ecological, parental, or sepulchral, the work of the poems is to examine and integrate the changeable natures of memory and reality.
Each poem in the second movement of the collection, entitled “Lunar Cycle,” employs the idiom Once upon a time as its entry point. This small, well-worn turn of phrase operates as a springboard into …
Wayfinding, Kalani N. Padilla
Wayfinding, Kalani N. Padilla
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
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Circulo Completo, Ben Sholar
Wind In Wyoming, Emma Fisher
Late Fall, Through The Windshield, Lucy Hendrickson
I Understand The Victorian Obsession With Ankles, Summer Romo
I Understand The Victorian Obsession With Ankles, Summer Romo
The Oval
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The Gospel According To My Psychedelic Cat, Or The Frango Chapter, Josh Moyar
The Gospel According To My Psychedelic Cat, Or The Frango Chapter, Josh Moyar
The Oval
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Handle With Care, Cass Sissel
If I Had Stayed Under The Boulder, Elizabeth Hewey
The Oval, 2022
The Oval
This issue includes creative work from undergraduate students at the University of Montana.
I Am, Nonso Obieyisi
Fireweed Dreams, Arwen Baxter
September Vol. 13, Abigail Hogan
Faceted, Cass Sissel
Cycle Of Hevel, Alicia Mcalpine
Body, No Longer, Jade Taylor
Constellation In Red, Jade Taylor
An Ode To What Is Below, Elizabeth Hewey
Ballad For The Sink Pissers, Riese Munoz
Nancy., Nance Beston
Symbiosis, Elizabeth Hewey
Sunbaby, Katelyn Eva Garcia
Sunbaby, Katelyn Eva Garcia
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Above all else, Sunbaby is a project concerned with that which is passed down from a mother to her daughters. Less interested in writing into the center of violent acts, this series of poems aims instead to consider all the things – both physical and psychological – that exist of the edges of violence. What happens to a body in the wake of violent acts? What informs the trauma of families? These are questions Sunbaby asks its reader to grapple with.
Set to background of the desert and mountain West, Sunbaby lingers on bodies (human and other) subjected to environmental …
The Changing, Sabrina B. Black
The Changing, Sabrina B. Black
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
In poems that center on experiences of childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood, The Changing explores the formation of identity and the malleability of the self. Sabrina Black writes into the spaces between people—at times finding connection there and at times isolation. Throughout the collection, the speaker reflects on complicated relationships with family members, classmates, and friends; on the ways those relationships have shaped her; and, most of all, on her relationship with that elusive thing called the self.
In a series of “Dear Advice Columnist” poems scattered throughout the manuscript, Black shifts focus away from personal experience, adopting the persona …
Other Orchards, Sam B. Robison
Other Orchards, Sam B. Robison
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Other Orchards is comprised of poems each suspect in their own way of those boundaries that might separate humans from nature, rural from urban, worker from scholar, or human from beast. Using the figure of the orchard, a kind of “false forest,” this collection studies the ways we map ourselves onto our work and the way work might inform an understanding of the self. Ultimately, these are poems that emerge from the seams of things—the shoulder of highway strewn with dead antelope, the feral apple tree lost to the woods, the farmer lost in their work, slowing becoming less and …
An Ironist, Caelan Cummings