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Desert Body, Lauren Mckinnon
Desert Body, Lauren Mckinnon
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
This thesis is a collection of poems examining certain paradoxes of my body. As a survivor of sexual violence, my body relives trauma which makes it feel uninhabitable. I compare my experiences with the Southern Utah desert. The physical beauty, destruction and inhabitability of the desert teaches me to accept my body as both beautiful and full of grief. The poems move chronologically through my life, beginning with an abusive relationship at the age of sixteen, a move to Moab at nineteen, and becoming a mother at twenty-five. Ultimately, with the desert as my guide, I learn to accept my …
Legend: The Song Of The Family, The Voice Of A Woman, Kimberly Roth Shumway
Legend: The Song Of The Family, The Voice Of A Woman, Kimberly Roth Shumway
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
The Song of the Family
I do not believe that lives are lived in isolation, but rather are connected by ties of humanity and of family. For me because of this intimate human connection, every life experience, trivial or tremendous, is a poem. The poems blend into one--a great symphony of the human condition. An experience, even if left unverbalized, shapes the minds of both the one experiencing it and those connected to him or her by either close or distant ties.
In this collection I combine the poetic experiences most relevant in shaping me. They are the songs of …
Skirting The Light: Some Poems, Joe Pitkin
Skirting The Light: Some Poems, Joe Pitkin
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
A collection of poems by Joe Pitkin.
Thespian, And Other Poems, William A. Eichelbaugh
Thespian, And Other Poems, William A. Eichelbaugh
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Thespian
Do not intrude,
Even though the door—unlocked—
For the smile
I wear today
Will be
tomorrow
In the rain. . .
The smiling mask,
The private pain. . .