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The Return Of The Dead: Resurrecting Chappell's Family Gathering, Jonathan Moore
The Return Of The Dead: Resurrecting Chappell's Family Gathering, Jonathan Moore
Master's Theses
This thesis examines Fred Chappell’s virtually overlooked collection of poetry Family Gathering (2000), and how the poems operate within the mode of the grotesque. I argue that the poems illuminate both the southern grotesque and Roland Barthes’s theory of photography’s Operator, Spectator, and Spectrum. I address Family Gathering as a family photo album full of still shots, snapshots, and even selfies, which illumines how Chappell’s use of the grotesque in this collection derives more from its original association with visual arts rather than only depicting the grotesque typically associated with characteristics deemed explicitly shocking or terrifying. I argue that …
Sea Squad, Liam Geary Baulch
Sea Squad, Liam Geary Baulch
The Goose
The Sea Squad is a band of cheerleaders against climate change. Taking action as a team in formation, they gather momentum, inviting all people to cheer with them, mimicking the infinitely expandable nature of the seas' molecular structure. The work was developed and performed as a bilingual project at Est-Nord-Est in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec, Canada, and has since been performed and exhibited internationally. The following poems are some of the chants that Sea Squad use to get a crowd cheering together against climate change.
Julia Randall Papers, Beth S. Harris, Megan Stolz
Julia Randall Papers, Beth S. Harris, Megan Stolz
Finding Aids: Guides to the Collections
This collection has manuscripts, teaching papers, and correspondence of poet Julia Randall. The correspondence include letters to or from colleagues, alumnae, and friends.
Four Poems, Tanis Macdonald
Auguries By Clea Roberts, Kate Braid
Welcome To The Anthropocene By Alice Major, Gillian Harding-Russell
Welcome To The Anthropocene By Alice Major, Gillian Harding-Russell
The Goose
Review of Alice Major's Welcome to the Anthropocene.
Tar Swan By David Martin, Melanie Dennis Unrau
Tar Swan By David Martin, Melanie Dennis Unrau
The Goose
Review of David Martin's Tar Swan.
No Tv For Woodpeckers By Gary Barwin, If Pressed By Andrew Mcewan, And Ecology Without Culture: Aesthetics For A Toxic World By Christine L. Marran, Michael D. Sloane
No Tv For Woodpeckers By Gary Barwin, If Pressed By Andrew Mcewan, And Ecology Without Culture: Aesthetics For A Toxic World By Christine L. Marran, Michael D. Sloane
The Goose
Review of Gary Barwin's No TV for Woodpeckers, Andrew McEwan's If Pressed, and Christine L. Marran's Ecology without Culture: Aesthetics for a Toxic World.
Rain Shadow By Nicholas Bradley And Cloud Physics By Karen Enns, Kelly Shepherd
Rain Shadow By Nicholas Bradley And Cloud Physics By Karen Enns, Kelly Shepherd
The Goose
Review of Nicholas Bradley's Rain Shadow and Karen Enns' Cloud Physics.
To Be Everything: Sylvia Plath And The Problem That Has No Name, Alanna P. Mcauliffe
To Be Everything: Sylvia Plath And The Problem That Has No Name, Alanna P. Mcauliffe
Student Theses and Dissertations
This thesis explores, in depth, how the poetry of Sylvia Plath operates as an expression of female discontent in the decade directly preceding the sexual revolution. This analysis incorporates both sociohistorical context and theory introduced in Betty Friedan’s 1963 work The Feminine Mystique. In particular, Plath’s work is put in conversation with Friedan’s notion of the “problem that has no name,” an all-consuming sense of malaise and dissatisfaction that plagued American women in the postwar era. This notion is furthered by close-readings of poems written throughout various stages of Plath’s career (namely “Spinster,” “Two Sisters of Persephone,” “Elm,” “Ariel,” “Daddy,” …
Race, Slavery, And Evasion: Whitman And Melville’S Changing Perspectives And Their Glancing Poetic Treatment Of The Core Civil War Issue, Said Fallaha
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Whitman and Melville’s poetry about the Civil War is almost completely silent when it comes to slavery. Both writers depict a newly emancipated person in their poems about the Civil War, but they seem to do so almost as an afterthought. Both Whitman's “Ethiopia Saluting the Colors” and Melville's “Formerly a Slave” represent an elderly African American woman. These poems stand alone in their representation of an African American. Peter J. Bellis argues that both writers were concerned with how to negotiate national emotions and policies by the end of the war and these “emotions” and “policies” were vital to …
Introducing Godzilla To Marianne Moore's Octopus Of Ice At The Intersection Of Global Warming, Environmental Philosophy, And Poetry, David Seter
Dissertations, Masters Theses, Capstones, and Culminating Projects
This paper explores the question: how can a poet write an ecologically aware poem about global warming? Global warming impacts everything on earth, most visibly the glaciers melting away before our eyes. Adopting Aldo Leopold’s environmental philosophy of thinking like a mountain, the poet may describe the impact of global warming upon the mountain, glacier, flora and fauna, that form an interconnected web of life. A poem that thinks like a mountain already exists: Marianne Moore’s “An Octopus” (published in 1924), which takes its title from the system of glaciers (or octopus of ice) on Mt. Rainier. For a contemporary …
Two Poems, Joanna Lilley
Two Poems, Clea Roberts
Two Poems, Dan Macisaac
A Collaboration Of Poetry And Art: The Krill Kill Project, Diane Guichon, Sarah Melanie Harrill
A Collaboration Of Poetry And Art: The Krill Kill Project, Diane Guichon, Sarah Melanie Harrill
The Goose
Artist Sarah Melanie Harrill interrogates poet Diane Guichon's poem "Krill Kill" in this project of interwoven, creative representations and musings on the connectivity between nature and humanity. This project formed part of the Calgary People's Poetry Festival in the fall of 2017.
Museum Archipelago, Elizabeth Dodd
Three Poems, Renée Jackson-Harper
Rag Cosmology By Erin Robinsong, Camilla Nelson
Rag Cosmology By Erin Robinsong, Camilla Nelson
The Goose
Review of Erin Robinsong's Rag Cosmology.
Islands Of Grass By Trevor Herriot And The Long Walk By Jan Zwicky, Gillian Harding-Russell
Islands Of Grass By Trevor Herriot And The Long Walk By Jan Zwicky, Gillian Harding-Russell
The Goose
Review of Trevor Herriot's Islands of Grass and Jan Zwicky's The Long Walk.
All The Names Between By Julia Mccarthy And The Girls With Stone Faces By Arleen Paré, Erin Renee Wahl
All The Names Between By Julia Mccarthy And The Girls With Stone Faces By Arleen Paré, Erin Renee Wahl
The Goose
Review of Arleen Paré's The Girls with Stone Faces and Julia McCarthy's All the Names Between.
The Wilds Of Poetry: Adventures In Mind And Landscape By David Hinton, Joel Weishaus
The Wilds Of Poetry: Adventures In Mind And Landscape By David Hinton, Joel Weishaus
The Goose
Review of David Hinton’s The Wilds of Poetry: Adventure’s in Mind and Landscape.
Better Nature By Fenn Stewart, Claire Caldwell
Better Nature By Fenn Stewart, Claire Caldwell
The Goose
Review of Fenn Stewart's Better Nature.
Birdmania: A Remarkable Passion For Birds By Bernd Brunner, Mozart's Starling By Lyanda Lynn Haupt, And Birds Art Life By Kyo Maclear, Nancy Lee Menning
Birdmania: A Remarkable Passion For Birds By Bernd Brunner, Mozart's Starling By Lyanda Lynn Haupt, And Birds Art Life By Kyo Maclear, Nancy Lee Menning
The Goose
Review of Bernd Brunner's Birdmania: A Remarkable Passion for Birds, Lyanda Lynn Haupt's Mozart's Starling, and Ky Maclear's Birds Art Life.
Dust Or Fire By Alyda Faber, Brandi Estey-Burtt
Dust Or Fire By Alyda Faber, Brandi Estey-Burtt
The Goose
Review of Alyda Faber's Dust or Fire.
Caribou Run By Richard Kelly Kemick, Emily Mcgiffin
Caribou Run By Richard Kelly Kemick, Emily Mcgiffin
The Goose
Review of Richard Kelly Kemick's Caribou Run.
Finding Aid To The Collection Of Celia Thaxter Materials, Celia Thaxter, Colby College Special Collections
Finding Aid To The Collection Of Celia Thaxter Materials, Celia Thaxter, Colby College Special Collections
Finding Aids
Celia Laighton Thaxter, 1835-1894, was an American poet and prose writer. Born Celia Laighton in Portsmouth, N.H., she spent her childhood on White Island Lighthouse, part of Isles of Shoals, and Appledore Island. At 16 she married Levi Thaxter and had three sons, Karl, John, and Roland. The family spent winters on the mainland in Massachusetts, where Celia felt imprisoned by domestic duties in a city house. Her first poem, "Land-locked," was published in 1860 and was an immediate success. Soon she became widely published, with poems appearing in Harper's, Scribner's, and the Atlantic. With the means to spend more …
Finding Aid To The Collection Of Robert Underwood Johnson Materials, Robert Underwood Johnson, Colby College Special Collections
Finding Aid To The Collection Of Robert Underwood Johnson Materials, Robert Underwood Johnson, Colby College Special Collections
Finding Aids
Robert Underwood Johnson, author, conservationist, and diplomat, was born in New York in 1853. For more than forty years he was associated with The Century Magazine. Associate Editor under Richard Watson Gilder, he succeeded to the editorship from 1909-1913. Using the influence of The Century Magazine, Underwood, in conjunction with famed naturalist John Muir, was one of the driving forces behind the creation of Yosemite National Park in the California in 1890. In 1889, Johnson also encouraged Muir to "start an association" to help protect the Sierra Nevada, inspiring the formation of the Sierra Club in 1892. In 1920-1921 he …
African-American Poetry, Music, And Politics, Tyler H. Macdonald
African-American Poetry, Music, And Politics, Tyler H. Macdonald
Honors Theses
The 2016 decision to award songwriter and musician Bob Dylan the Nobel Prize in Literature sparked a worldwide debate on the relationship between music and poetry and raised many questions about music’s place in literary canon. However, this debate is nothing new. Questions about the relationship between music and poetry have long been debated. Some scholars believe the two disciplines should be studied separately, while others prefer to consider the connections between the two.
My project begins with a question: if Bob Dylan’s songs can be considered poetry, what other forms of music might also be considered poetry? Rap implements …
Pecan Grove Review Volume 19, St. Mary's University
Pecan Grove Review Volume 19, St. Mary's University
Pecan Grove Review
Creative writings by students, faculty, and staff of the St. Mary's University community.