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Multiplicity, Marianne Leslie Chan
Multiplicity, Marianne Leslie Chan
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
This manuscript, Multiplicity, is a collection of poems that addresses the varying dimensions within human interactions and the multiple nature of the self. The speakers in these poems confront the “arbitrary constraints” and the categories that define our identities, as well as how these categories are almost always blurred by the complexities of the self and the differences between people. These categories include gender, sexuality, ethnicity, siblinghood, daughterhood, and religion. Two of these poems— “Really, It is All Arbitrary Constraint” and “Other Stories,” which appear in the second section—attempt to dismantle these constraints and/or categories by breaking from traditional poetic …
Maps On The Backs Of Our Eyes, Joan Paulette Robinson
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.
About A Yellow Ball, Shannon Alice Salter
About A Yellow Ball, Shannon Alice Salter
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
These are poems made from many things: color, eggs, oranges, many kinds of seeds, leaves, wind, California, the desert, birds. They are things alive in the world and alive in my heart. I cannot take them out of the world, but from my heart I can have whatever appears on its surface. The language of steam.
They are poems that like to be at home.
California is my home and so is the Mojave (and so is every desert). I live in a valley about four hundred miles from the Pacific Ocean, in the city of Las Vegas. What better …
Strike Out Across The Shoreless Ocean, Julia Claire Paajanen
Strike Out Across The Shoreless Ocean, Julia Claire Paajanen
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
What happens between a reader and a poem is none of my business. The world has always been yours; find your own way.
(1) Every choice is correct.
(2) Everything is true.
(3) What is anything, unless so far as it is enjoyed?
All you have to do is see the course, and when you see it, go.