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Horsepower, Joy Priest
Horsepower, Joy Priest
Theses and Dissertations
Horsepower is a collection of poems curated to be a cinematic, black femme, escape narrative. The speaker, who is experiencing a self-imposed exile from her home, radically envisions waywardness as aspirational.
Beyond The Limits Of Sight, Catherine Ntube
Beyond The Limits Of Sight, Catherine Ntube
Theses and Dissertations
Beyond the Limits of Sight is a collection of poems exploring black diasporic identity through and beyond the silences that come to surround violence. In this experimental collection, black bars representing selective silence appear throughout the work, in protest of the compulsory release of licensing rights to the university and its corporate partners as a degree requirement, and in insistence that the poet be able to decide on what terms and via which platforms their voice enters the public sphere.
When We’Ve Left The Table, Lauren Rose Clark
When We’Ve Left The Table, Lauren Rose Clark
Theses and Dissertations
When We’ve Left the Table is a collection of poems that explores personal identity as it relates to family and upbringing, as well as grief in its various forms.