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Field Of Play, Lauren Tess
Field Of Play, Lauren Tess
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
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A Constellation In Training, Marko C. Capoferri
A Constellation In Training, Marko C. Capoferri
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Capoferri, Marko, M.F.A., Fall 2023 Creative Writing - Poetry
Light, Loneliness, and Location
Chairperson: Sean Hill
In many better-known works by the 20th century painter Edward Hopper, I find a locus of visual concerns that overlay the fixations of the majority—if not all—of the poems that comprise my thesis, what I like to think of as the three L’s: light, loneliness, and location (to which I could also add, as secondary colors, longing and landscape). Additionally, there are what Mark Strand identifies as “two imperatives” in Hopper’s work, “the one that urges us to continue and the other that …
Against Nightfall, Anna Omara Edwards
Against Nightfall, Anna Omara Edwards
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
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Breathing Hard In Beautiful Places, Lars Chinburg
Breathing Hard In Beautiful Places, Lars Chinburg
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Chinburg, Lars, M.S., Spring 2024
Breathing Hard in Beautiful Places, Abstract
In Breathing Hard in Beautiful Places, Lars Chinburg explores his connections to the people and places that have made him who he is in a collection of personal essays. The collection is inspired by the talents of many writers–Bill Bryson’s wry travel observations, Norman Maclean’s lyricism on the interplay of nature and family, Sigurd Olson’s gorgeous descriptions of place, and David Sedaris’ knack for drawing hilarity out of the prosaic, among many others.
Many of the essays touch on the power of play as a force for good and …
Sudden Oak Death, Jeffrey William Guay
Sudden Oak Death, Jeffrey William Guay
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
A novel set contemporaneously in rural Montana, Sudden Oak Death follows two protagonists, Wade and his teenage daughter Paige. Each are fighting different addictions, as Wade is in alcoholism recovery, and Paige recently came home from a drug treatment program. In order to succeed, Paige must reintegrate herself into public high school, despite suffering from undiagnosed dyslexia. Wade is raising his family as a single father, and struggles to maintain his emotional stability in the face of his own recovery.
Islands In The North, Kirstie Catriona Clinko
Islands In The North, Kirstie Catriona Clinko
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Islands in the North is a coming of age Y.A. novel, set first on the Isle of Lewis in the Scottish Hebrides, then Vashon Island in Washington State. Dwyn is fourteen and three quarters, and she has attended Bridgely School in Manchester, England, since kindergarten. At Bridgely, she can truly be herself. A straight ‘A’ student, an accomplished pianist, a good friend. Dwyn is a stand-in mother for her five-year-old brother, James. Their absent father is a merchant marine who sails the seven seas and is little more than a pen pal for Dwyn. Her abusive mother dates a Scottish …
Green Poems, Lillian I. Emerick Valentine
Green Poems, Lillian I. Emerick Valentine
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
With broad lyric range, the ecopoems in Green center around the ideology and ethics of the American West. The speaker’s position within that as a descendent of settler laborers is interrogated, as well as language itself. Grammar is used as a tool to perform deconstructive work, examining how labor intersects with colonialism and climate change. Melding intellectual analyses of etymology with the physical act of agricultural labor, these poems range from the conversational and playful to lyric explorations of loss.
Interwoven with this is the speaker’s self-examination of femininity and matrilinear inheritance. How do we use the language we’ve been …