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Starting To Work The California Garden In Winter, Leeann Bartolini

LeeAnn Bartolini

French Kissing The Earth, Leeann Bartolini

LeeAnn Bartolini

Maps On The Backs Of Our Eyes, Joan Paulette Robinson

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

A collection of poems related to places in the Mojave Desert and the Las Vegas area or in rural central Michigan. Most poems deal with history and memory and the overlapping nature of experience.

Her Eyes, Leeann Bartolini

LeeAnn Bartolini

"Dae Scotsmen Dream O 'Lectric Leids?" Robert Crawford's Cyborg Scotland, Alexander Burke

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis applies a Cybernetic interpretation to a selection of poetry by the Scottish Informationist poet Robert Crawford, drawn mostly from two collections: A Scottish Assembly (1990) and Sharawaggi: Poems in Scots (1990). Crawford is contextualized by observing the poetic influences of Robert Burns, John Davidson, and Hugh MacDiarmid, as well as the philosophical influence of George Elder Davie’s The Democratic Intellect. This paper argues that, in response to the Two Cultures hypothesis put forth by C. P. Snow and the widely-held belief that Scotland is irrevocably fractured, the shifting boundaries of the many disparate Scottish cultures are mediated by …

En L'Air: A Collection Of Poetry Written In The Air, Pamela Herron

Pamela Herron

En l'air is Herron's first poetry collection and grew out of many sleepless flights looking down on the earth below. The poems intertwine the world of a destructive species and the environment that suffers through such destruction.

Lessons In Tourism, Emily A. Francisco

Student Publications

A section poem in four parts that examines a number of experiences from the perspective of a female traveler, addressing themes such as dislocation of self, the remaking of identity, and the nature of female otherness within the global community.

Shieldmaiden, Allison A. Taylor

Student Publications

"Shieldmaiden" is a poem that examines J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series from a feminist perspective, focusing on the character of Éowyn and her influence on female readers of Tolkien's novels.

Homophonic Translation, Appositional Writing, And The Monster, Ryan Landry Clark

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation features a combination of critical and creative work

exploring the ethics of appropriative writing and the reparative potential of homophonic translation. The opening essay examines the ethics of appropriation- based poetry and introduces the concept of what I call "appositional writing," a term to describe ethically-minded works of poetry that make use of appropriative writing methods. The next three parts of this dissertation are each appositional writing projects that make use of homophonic translation as the primary method of composition. "Arizona State Bill 1070: An Act" is a homophonic translation of the anti-immigration bill of the same name. …

An Oblique Blackness: Reading Racial Formation In The Aesthetics Of George Elliott Clarke, Dionne Brand, And Wayde Compton, Jeremy D. Haynes B.A.H.

Jeremy D Haynes B.A.H.

This thesis examines how the poetics of George Elliott Clarke, Dionne Brand and Wayde Compton articulate unique aesthetic voices that are representative of a range of ethnic communities that collectively make-up blackness in Canada. Despite the different backgrounds, geographies, and ethnicities of these authors, blackness in Canada is regularly viewed as a homogeneous community that is most closely tied to the cultural histories of the American South and the Atlantic slave trade. Black Canadians have historically been excluded from the official narratives of the nation, disassociating blackness from Canadian-ness. Epithets such as “African-Canadian” are indicative of the way race distances …

Feeling With Imagination: Sympathy And Postwar American Poetry, Timothy A. Dejong

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

This dissertation examines how sympathy, defined as the act of “feeling with” another, develops within American poetics from 1950-1965 both as aesthetic strategy and as political response to Cold War culture. Re-examining the social aims of postwar poets typically either thought of as apolitical or yoked to political positions not in fact evidenced by their poems, I argue that these poets, by developing forms of sympathy that negotiate the middle space between the aesthetic conventions of late modernist poetry and the social concerns of postwar American culture, instantiate a self-questioning, often implicit form of “soft politics” that both prefigures and …

Travel For Agoraphobics, John Allen Berry

Dissertations

Travel for Agoraphobics is a collection of fifty poems accompanied by an introduction. Using both traditional and experimental forms, the poems are in conversation with each other about loneliness and isolation in an age of technologies designed to bring us closer together. The introduction addresses the influence of other writers and the process of writing and revising.

Mina Loy And The Electric Body, Debra Elizabeth Cardell

Masters Theses

Abstract Mina Loy, modernist poet and artist, experimented with theories of feminism and class within her own artwork. This creates a complex point of interpretation for the reader because of overlap and contradiction. The concept of ekphrasis, when manipulated for Loy’s context, opens possibilities of understanding Loy’s many contradictions. Since the body and material world play a central role in Loy’s art, ekphrasis is a lens through which we can begin to see the relationship between Loy’s art and writing along with her feminism.

Writing Public Poetry: Humanism And The Woman Writer, Elaine Beilin

Elaine V. Beilin

Describes how three middle-class poets, Isabella Whitney, Anne Dowriche and Rachel Speght, revise the humanist concept of the learned lady by repositioning her and her work in the domain of public poetry. Writings on social, moral, political, and historical topics; Challenged the limitations set by men who supported and provided a humanist education for women; Effectively revised the humanist dogma on the place of women's work; More.

George Canning, Liberal Toryism, And Counterrevolutionary Satire In The Anti-Jacobin, Martha Thompson

Theses and Dissertations

One of the most defining moments in the histories of British satire and the public sphere took place in the late 1790s in an abandoned house in Piccadilly. Here George Canning and several fellow conservatives began writing and circulating their weekly newspaper the Anti-Jacobin. Although the periodical has been critically neglected, it is a valuable model for exploring how literary (partisan) politicians attempted to form a rational and critical public sphere through their satiric poetry. Founded by George Canning and edited by William Gifford, the Anti-Jacobin seems to reflect a reactionary conservative's ideology and has been summarily dismissed because of …

A Birdhouse At The Bottom Of The Ocean, Sarah C. Howze

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Hearing Eighteenth-Century Occasional Poetry By And About Women: Swift And Barbauld, Elizabeth Kraft

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830

No abstract provided.

Photo From Ballydehob, Robert Funge

Bryant Literary Review

We're staying in this little village just west of Cork
in the green and yellow house on the left

Mother Noose, Mark Smith

Bryant Literary Review

Behind the yard of pumpkins
and blue hubbards, stems

Father, 1970, Julie Danho

Bryant Literary Review

Outside Sip-N-Dip Donuts, he and Drag and Crazy Andy down Cuervo until

The Sting Of It, Denise Utt

Bryant Literary Review

If I could retire
I wouldn't have to commute
to the whims of the wind

Looking Forward To The Farmer's Market, Stephen Germic

Bryant Literary Review

Slender lives of orphans, sewage of a nation,
they talk in old age about childhood.

Airport, Alex Russo

Bryant Literary Review

a universe of utter transience connects people
moving in every direction like twelve thousand

Afterlife--The Drowning Pool, Catherine Tahmin

Bryant Literary Review

when you die
they bring you warm towels

Microwave Popcorn, Ace Boggess

Bryant Literary Review

in the movie theaters of my childhood
I learned to love the dark

Rocket Man, Peter E. Murphy

Bryant Literary Review

I'm not sleeping
good and my gut

Shall I Go?, James Damron

Bryant Literary Review

When soft, white light
Falls upon the night,

The Dependence Day Celebration, Dwayne Thorpe

Bryant Literary Review

This day comes to us in a box
with bright new clothes and masks.

The Widow, Francine Witte

Bryant Literary Review

She stands straight up for the first time
in years. So many hours spent hunched

Probably, Francine Witte

Bryant Literary Review

That summer was knobby
and loose-skinned like the knuckles
of a tired old man. My father