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Rain Town, Melanie Crow Aug 2006

Rain Town, Melanie Crow

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My project, a collection of poetry, examines both loss and transformation. Personal loss informs the poems, but the work also addresses how the speaker is accorded insight into the world because of loss and is transformed. The work takes into account mythology, science, and the act of writing in order to understand what it means to live in mutability. Many of the poems demonstrate an acute awareness of the body. Robert Lowell and Jorie Graham are both writers who have informed my poems in this way; both explore a dual consciousness of loss and renewal and both represent moments of …


Hatchery Of Tongues, Michael Wallace Bassett May 2006

Hatchery Of Tongues, Michael Wallace Bassett

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Hatchery of Tongues is a collection of poems accompanied by a critical introduction.