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A Mandala Of Hands, John Warner Smith
A Mandala Of Hands, John Warner Smith
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
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The End Of Her, Kerry Alexander
The End Of Her, Kerry Alexander
English Honors Projects
The End of Her is a collection of poetry that centers on ideas of celebrity, nostalgia, pain and healing, and collective memory. The poems depict the lives and times of tragic women: from Eve to Amy Winehouse. The project touches on both the real and the imagined in examining what it means to be famously tragic, as well as what it means to be a spectator of demise. Interwoven autobiographical pieces reveal the relationship between individual memory and shared history, as the collection positions personal accounts of love and loss in conversation with some of the world’s best-known stories.
Always, Candise W. Henson
Always, Candise W. Henson
Student Publications
“Always” explores the emotions involved in miscarriage, including the assignment of blame.
Cark, Broc Norman Rossell
Cark, Broc Norman Rossell
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
A collection of poems with critical preface. The author expresses concern for responsibilities and obligations resulting from utterance and offers a means of reading poetry in light of such concerns. Lyric theory and the legacy of Language poetry with regards to the lyric are loci in a discussion of contemporary poetics. It analyzes the work of poets Tomaz Salamun and Lyn Hejinian, in relation to theorists Theodor Adorno and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, to articulate a poetics specific to the poems in the collection. The poetics is described via the literary and anthropological uses of metaphor, which are employed to unify text, …
Clarity, Candise W. Henson
Clarity, Candise W. Henson
Student Publications
“Clarity” expresses the connectivity of a lifetime’s events and the human inability to direct lives.