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Daimon, Miranda Foster Merklein
Daimon, Miranda Foster Merklein
Dissertations
The following creative dissertation is a book of 57 poems.
Upstate Roadkill Memorial Service, Scott Christian Fynboe
Upstate Roadkill Memorial Service, Scott Christian Fynboe
Dissertations
Upstate Roadkill Memorial Service is a collection of poems that examines death and mortality and includes a critical preface.
The Son's Return, Gary Charles Wilkens
The Son's Return, Gary Charles Wilkens
Dissertations
This dissertation is a collection of poems accompanied by a critical preface.
The Nightingale Of Austerlitz, Lindsay Marianna Walker
The Nightingale Of Austerlitz, Lindsay Marianna Walker
Dissertations
The Nightingale of Austerlitz employs poetry, fiction, and nonfiction to articulate the theme of (mis)communication. A pliable, multi-genre approach was necessary to convey the urgency of two central characters’ desire to connect despite the impossibility of doing so. Prose interrupts and challenges the set precision of poetry in order to embody the stops and starts—the literal and figurative breakdowns—of communication. The juxtaposition of genres dramatizes dialogue, silence, affective distance, and desire. Song, sound, repetition (using lullaby, referencing music, thematizing the ear) further assert the power of language as performance and aesthetics as consolation, and provoke a particular kind of attention …
Tiny Supernovas, Jesse Jay Ross
Tiny Supernovas, Jesse Jay Ross
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This work seeks to expose the truth in as many different forms as possible. As the title, Tiny Supernovas, suggests, it is influenced by the concept of the explosions of super-massive stars. This explosion is known as a supernova. It is only through a supernova, only through the death and subsequent explosion of one of the largest sequence of stars, that we obtain many of the elements necessary for life here on earth. All heavy metals come from supernovas. Everything we and our planet are made from comes from these explosions. Yet, there is a similarly prolific release of energy …
Who Is It That Writes? Poetry And The Plural Self, Christopher Karl Konrad
Who Is It That Writes? Poetry And The Plural Self, Christopher Karl Konrad
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
‘Who is it that writes?’ is the central question of this thesis, which consists of a creative and a critical component. The creative work “Letters to Mark” is an attempt to address the questions, as similarly formulated by the poet Fernando Pessoa; who, really, am I? How many am I and, who is it that writes? It is a profoundly personal work, the origins of which reach back to my earliest days when I was first arrested by Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra. I have always wanted to ‘answer’ Zarathustra, that is, respond stylistically and address some of Nietzsche’s key ideas …