Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Arts and Humanities Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Nonfiction

PDF

University of Southern Maine

2013

Articles 1 - 2 of 2

Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities

Steady Song Of The Heart: Memoir And Meditation, Susan Jean Perschbacher Mfa Dec 2013

Steady Song Of The Heart: Memoir And Meditation, Susan Jean Perschbacher Mfa

All Student Scholarship

In these memoirist essays I interweave my life stories with sojourns in nature and my spiritual journey. Not a narrative of horrific abuse and trauma , it is an account similar to those of other women growing up the 1950's, a time of pretense that social problems did not exist, that the United states was a place of upward mobility-except if you were black, poor, female or otherwise removed from a life of privilege.


Born With Their Hearts In Their Mouths, Karin Serpentina Eberhardt Mfa Jan 2013

Born With Their Hearts In Their Mouths, Karin Serpentina Eberhardt Mfa

All Student Scholarship

Born with Their Hearts in Their Mouths is a collection of chapter excerpts and an essay. Taken from two non-fiction books in progress, the chapter excerpts are written on seemingly disparate topics: the increasingly rare Spoon-billed Sandpiper, and the enduring Kachin people of northern Myanmar.