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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.
Feeling With Imagination: Sympathy And Postwar American Poetry, Timothy A. Dejong
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 …
A Birdhouse At The Bottom Of The Ocean, Sarah C. Howze
A Birdhouse At The Bottom Of The Ocean, Sarah C. Howze
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
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