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Digital Pastoral, Rebecca Holifield
Digital Pastoral, Rebecca Holifield
Master's Theses
Digital Pastoral is a collection of original poems and a creative nonfiction essay, accompanied by a critical introduction.
Tectonic, Rebecca E. Holifield
Tectonic, Rebecca E. Holifield
Honors Theses
Tectonic is a collection of original poems accompanied by a critical preface.
To My Room’S Future Tenant, Abigail Garcia
To My Room’S Future Tenant, Abigail Garcia
Honors Theses
To My Room’s Future Tenant is an original collection of poems accompanied by a critical preface.
Zona, Zachary Williams
Zona, Zachary Williams
Dissertations
This dissertation is a collection of poems written between 2011 and 2019. Zona the title of the book, meditates on themes of precarity, loss, imagination, and transformation. Drawing from both the Surrealist and Deep Image traditions, the book comments on life and aesthetic experience under late-stage capitalism.
The Overview Effect, Todd Osborne
The Overview Effect, Todd Osborne
Dissertations
The following poems were completed by the author between September 2015 and February 2019.
Probably Nothing To Worry About, Jennifer Bravo
Probably Nothing To Worry About, Jennifer Bravo
Dissertations
These are (allegedly) poems.
The Return Of The Dead: Resurrecting Chappell's Family Gathering, Jonathan Moore
The Return Of The Dead: Resurrecting Chappell's Family Gathering, Jonathan Moore
Master's Theses
This thesis examines Fred Chappell’s virtually overlooked collection of poetry Family Gathering (2000), and how the poems operate within the mode of the grotesque. I argue that the poems illuminate both the southern grotesque and Roland Barthes’s theory of photography’s Operator, Spectator, and Spectrum. I address Family Gathering as a family photo album full of still shots, snapshots, and even selfies, which illumines how Chappell’s use of the grotesque in this collection derives more from its original association with visual arts rather than only depicting the grotesque typically associated with characteristics deemed explicitly shocking or terrifying. I argue that …
The Body Mends Itself, Hannah Elizabeth Dow
The Body Mends Itself, Hannah Elizabeth Dow
Dissertations
The following poems were completed by the author between September 2014 and April 2017.
18 Dorset Ct., Allison Catherine Campbell
18 Dorset Ct., Allison Catherine Campbell
Dissertations
The following poems and essays were completed by the author between October 2012 and April 2016.
The Scripture Of Helices, Jessica M. Ramer
The Scripture Of Helices, Jessica M. Ramer
Master's Theses
This thesis comprises poems written during my two years of study for the Master of Arts Degree in English with a creative writing emphasis. The majority of the poems are written in either a received or contemporary form, although a substantial minority are written in free verse. Many of the poems deal with extreme circumstances such as combat and imprisonment. Others address family stresses due to birth, death, remarriage, and clashes of values. Some poems have a religious emphasis while others are firmly rooted in the natural world. All, however, are explorations of human nature.
Bildungsroman, Mary M. Spooner
Bildungsroman, Mary M. Spooner
Honors Theses
Bildungsroman is an original collection of poems exploring issues of womanhood, relationships, motherhood, and growth. The majority of poems in this collection are written in free verse; however, the collection also includes several formal poems. Bildungsroman is accompanied by a critical preface.
Material Matters, Thomas George Holmes
Material Matters, Thomas George Holmes
Dissertations
Material Matters is a collection of original poems written by Thomas G. Holmes, while a doctoral student at The University of Southern Mississippi. The poems explore the materiality of writing.
The Knowledge Weapon: Ways Of Knowing, Annette Christine Boehm
The Knowledge Weapon: Ways Of Knowing, Annette Christine Boehm
Dissertations
This collection of poems explores the language of knowledge and instruction. While it can provide a sense of security, what we are given as ‘knowledge’ is frequently unreliable or even misleading, and used much like a weapon.
This Animal, Elena Therese Tomorowitz
This Animal, Elena Therese Tomorowitz
Dissertations
This Animal is a poetic narrative about humans’ animalistic instincts and how we use them to navigate our relationships with others and the world around us.
The Pine Effect, Andrea Kay Spofford
The Pine Effect, Andrea Kay Spofford
Dissertations
This dissertation includes original poems written during my time at The University of Southern Mississippi.
Running In Absentia, Jeffrey David Tucker
Running In Absentia, Jeffrey David Tucker
Dissertations
Running in Absentia is a collection of short fiction, short-short fiction (also known as flash fiction), and poetry, with a critical introduction.
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 …
Night Field Anecdote, William Garrett Wright
Night Field Anecdote, William Garrett Wright
Dissertations
Night Field Anecdote is an original collection of forty-one poems accompanied by a critical introduction.
The Naming Of Strays, Erin Elizabeth Smith
The Naming Of Strays, Erin Elizabeth Smith
Dissertations
The Naming of Strays is a collection of poems that deal with issues of place, gender power, sexual fidelity, and transience. While the majority of the poems are written in free verse, the dissertation also features a handful of formal poems including sonnets, sestinas, and prose poetry. n
Issaquah In January, Daniel Walter Morris
Issaquah In January, Daniel Walter Morris
Dissertations
ISSAQUAH IN JANUARY is an original collection of fifty-one poems accompanied by a preface.
For The Stadium Vendor, Richard Andrew Boada
For The Stadium Vendor, Richard Andrew Boada
Dissertations
FOR THE STADIUM VENDOR is an original collection of fifty poems accompanied by a preface.
Petticoat Government: Poems And Essays, Tiffany Ann Noonan
Petticoat Government: Poems And Essays, Tiffany Ann Noonan
Dissertations
Petticoat Government is a collection of poems and essays that draw upon the varied lexicons of science, mythology, sports, literature, travel, art, fashion, and popular culture in an attempt to understand what deliminates womanhood. Using a mix of traditional and contemporary forms, these texts seek to complicate the myriad—and often conflicting—models of femaleness and the female body.
Homefront, Stacy Elaine Pratt
Homefront, Stacy Elaine Pratt
Dissertations
This collection of poetry and essays explores the nature of marriage, time, and human experience. Many of the pieces center on the author's experience as the wife of a soldier deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Others use scientific and mathematical imagery to illustrate spiritual concepts.
We Become Delicate Boats: Poems And Essays, Deja Anne Earley
We Become Delicate Boats: Poems And Essays, Deja Anne Earley
Dissertations
My collection of poems and essays, We Become Delicate Boats, takes inspiration from a broad range of sources that shift into each other: paintings, pop culture, literary figures, dreams, relationships, faith, family, history. For example, some poems throw together unexpected bedfellows, like Kafka's Gregor Samsa and Marie Antoinette; others are anecdotal, like one that describes going on a blind date with a man who actually turns out to be blind, some re-imagine stories we already know, like one in the voice of Medusa, talking about which occasions call for her various snake "wigs." Although quite a few pieces are playful, …
Parliament Of Owls, Allison Renee Riddles
Parliament Of Owls, Allison Renee Riddles
Dissertations
In this work of poems, I experiment with different forms (villanelles, sonnets, cinquains, sestinas, prose poems, and free verse) to create an original accompanying space for the existence of my speakers. I also use many of my poems to illustrate moments, feelings, and scenarios of relationships as well as place new perspectives on poems based on the work of other poets. Parliament of Owls provides an array of vistas on relationships, loneliness, and triumph.
Hatchery Of Tongues, Michael Wallace Bassett
Hatchery Of Tongues, Michael Wallace Bassett
Dissertations
Hatchery of Tongues is a collection of poems accompanied by a critical introduction.