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Schrödinger’S Daughter, Christina Angeli
Schrödinger’S Daughter, Christina Angeli
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
"Schrödinger’s Daughter,” explores the societal norms which govern grief and mourning. The project, which is comprised of a series of interconnected short stories and found text prose poems, follows a family dealing with the loss of their patriarch. The narrative is told through the perspective of the three remaining immediate family members: Trista, the deceased’s daughter, acts as primary narrator, while Brigitte, the wife, and Ulisse, the son, act as secondary narrators. Each story weaves together to create a multilayered representation of the public and private grieving process, often reinterpreting events through multiple perspectives, illustrating the varied nature of grief. …
Sol And The Rockettes, Samantha Bauder
Sol And The Rockettes, Samantha Bauder
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Sol and the Rockettes is a collection of poetry exploring our solar system and many of the lesser known qualities and characteristics of planetary bodies. The poetry relates these characteristics through a combination of scientific language and a mishmash of conflicting metaphors; this includes an overarching family structure, which describes the planetary bodies as human-ish figures, with human traits representative of their physical traits. The accompanying essay, “Building a Home for Readers in the Unfamiliar Territory of Space,” details the relationship between science and poetry in a few select works (Mary Barnard’s Time and the White Tigress, Christopher Dewdney’s The …