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Ashes From Falling Stars, John A. Nieves
Ashes From Falling Stars, John A. Nieves
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This thesis is a book length collection of poetry—all original and by the author. The book has three chapters, each with a different mode of expressing the work’s overall theme: the remnants of unfulfilled wishes. The first chapter deals with ordinary or mundane manifestations of the theme. The second chapter covers extraordinary, but still feasible, variations on the theme. The final chapter deals with subconscious versions of these unfulfilled wishes. It is far more surreal than the other two chapters and exists in a sort of dream-reality.
The poetry included in this work is all free verse. There are narrative …