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Big Infinity: A Cancer Journey, Christy L. Lorio Mrs.
Big Infinity: A Cancer Journey, Christy L. Lorio Mrs.
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
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Local, Jane Barnes
Local, Jane Barnes
English Honors Theses
"Local" is a collection of poems broken into five sections: Locale, Catholicism, Maman, Death & Ghosts, and an epilogue. This collection explores the particular milieu of Allentown, Pennsylvania, and focuses on my experiences attending a Catholic school there and the deaths and losses I dealt with during that time. A number of these poems follow a long, narrative style and employ a confessional tone; the locale of rural Pennsylvania is present, either directly or indirectly as an undercurrent, in every piece. It was heavily influenced by Gwendolyn Brooks' work cultivating a poetic locale in her works, such as "A Street …
The Youngest, Trezlen Drake
The Youngest, Trezlen Drake
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis is a collection of poems that considers life in a southern Black family, memory, nostalgia, dysfunction, race and gender, and generational trauma. These poems are influenced by poetry, fiction, music, popular culture, and scholarship, each providing a different perspective on life and language to talk about that which can sometimes be unspeakable.
A recurring character in this collection is the girlchild, reminiscent of Marge Piercy’s character in “Barbie Doll.” The girlchild here is the figure of the woman or girl who experiences trauma, and what some consider to be unspeakable.
These poems are also an exploration and disruption …
Catch Hell Blues, Nick Jebsen
Catch Hell Blues, Nick Jebsen
Senior Projects Spring 2020
My novella features four friends attempting to navigate the transition between high school and adulthood while coming of age in the midst of political turmoil and an American epidemic of substance misuse. They attend a house party, inebriate, and drive around Los Angeles in a 1996 BMW 7 series while waxing philosophic about God, free-will, and beauty. After purchasing more alcohol, they vandalize a Confederate flag, which incites a road-rage incident. The second half of the novella details their separation from one another and struggles with personal loss and substance abuse.
Son Of Red Earth Or The George Story: Novel Excerpt, Callie Ann Atkinson
Son Of Red Earth Or The George Story: Novel Excerpt, Callie Ann Atkinson
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
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Robert Catherine, Sarah Nelson Rupp
Robert Catherine, Sarah Nelson Rupp
Theses and Dissertations
Robert Catherine is an experimental augmented reality novel engaged in the speculative realist question: What is the point to anything if everything?
A perverted and downwardly mobile Richmond millennial man quarantined because of the Coronavirus writes a series of creative non-fiction essays for his girlfriend about suicide, panic attacks, ADHD, DNA testing, capitalism, depression, and sexual repression.