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Alive And Possibly Dangerous, Lillian C. Starr
Alive And Possibly Dangerous, Lillian C. Starr
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
ALIVE AND POSSIBLY DANGEROUS is a collection of poems interrogating family, sex, and the ever-changing modes of internal living. How do the things we hear when we are young age within us? How do we cope with our biggest fears coming to life? ALIVE AND POSSIBLY DANGEROUS explores, perhaps most importantly, how we come to be the strongest versions of ourselves. Clustered around a sprawling, four-page poem propelled by the phrasing of an internet meme, the poems in this book cover topics from astrology to country line dancing with the same fervent breath.
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Nights In The City Beautiful, Veronica Suarez
Nights In The City Beautiful, Veronica Suarez
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Nights in The City Beautiful is a collection of confessional, free verse poems that explores sexual trauma, mental health, the exigencies of marriage, and the complexities of human desire. These interconnected poems are grounded with a braided narrative and tackle taboo themes. In Part 1: Monogamy, the reader journeys into the world of Vincent and Victoria, their profound love, and their anxiety disorders. In Part 2: Polyamory, Victoria gets caught in a love triangle when she meets her publishing coworker, Peter Langley.
The book evokes the movement of Romanticism and first-and-second-generation Romantic poets such as William Blake and Lord Byron. …