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Half-Way, A. S. More, Edward Wells Dec 2018

Half-Way, A. S. More, Edward Wells

Westview

This distance is real.


The Return Of The Dead: Resurrecting Chappell's Family Gathering, Jonathan Moore Dec 2018

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 …


Dennis Ross Poetry Submission, Dennis Ross Sep 2018

Dennis Ross Poetry Submission, Dennis Ross

Westview

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Poetry Re-Submission - Loren Smith, Loren Smith Sep 2018

Poetry Re-Submission - Loren Smith, Loren Smith

Westview

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"After The Storm," "Full Moon, House Cats," "Nameless, Coffeeshop Woman," "Movement," And "We Leave Behind Footprints", Gregory D. Brown Sep 2018

"After The Storm," "Full Moon, House Cats," "Nameless, Coffeeshop Woman," "Movement," And "We Leave Behind Footprints", Gregory D. Brown

Westview

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Poetry Of Roe 8, Nandi Chinna Mar 2018

Poetry Of Roe 8, Nandi Chinna

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

Poetry of Roe 8

The occasion for the writing of these poems was activism surrounding the controversial highway known as the Roe 8 extension in the areas of Cockburn and Fremantle in Western Australia. Planned in the 1950s, Roe 8 is contentious for a number of reasons, including extraordinary political deals over funding, undue process regarding environmental reporting, lack of a business case, inadequate noise and traffic modelling, erasure of Indigenous heritage sites, and clearing of the sensitive Beeliar wetlands and Coolbellup banksia woodlands which were designated a Threatened Ecological Community in 2016. During the summer of 2016/2017 contractors started …


Growing Young, Dennis Ross Feb 2018

Growing Young, Dennis Ross

Westview

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Snipe Hunting, Parker Long Feb 2018

Snipe Hunting, Parker Long

Westview

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First Snow, Denver, Robert Cooperman Feb 2018

First Snow, Denver, Robert Cooperman

Westview

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But What Will I, Richard Donnelly Feb 2018

But What Will I, Richard Donnelly

Westview

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Baby Monitor, Scott Thomas Feb 2018

Baby Monitor, Scott Thomas

Westview

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Wet Pavement, Lee Zumpe Feb 2018

Wet Pavement, Lee Zumpe

Westview

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Too Many Words, Lee Zumpe Feb 2018

Too Many Words, Lee Zumpe

Westview

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The Night We Met, Lee Zumpe Feb 2018

The Night We Met, Lee Zumpe

Westview

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Nameless, Coffeeshop Woman, Gregory Brown Feb 2018

Nameless, Coffeeshop Woman, Gregory Brown

Westview

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Full Moon, House Cats, Gregory Brown Feb 2018

Full Moon, House Cats, Gregory Brown

Westview

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Mount Unzen, Japan, June 3, 1991, Michael Catherwood Feb 2018

Mount Unzen, Japan, June 3, 1991, Michael Catherwood

Westview

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Rumblings, Michael Fraley Feb 2018

Rumblings, Michael Fraley

Westview

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Into The Howl, Blake Kilgore Feb 2018

Into The Howl, Blake Kilgore

Westview

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No More Days, Richard Donnelly Feb 2018

No More Days, Richard Donnelly

Westview

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Cellphone Psychosis, Robert Cooperman Feb 2018

Cellphone Psychosis, Robert Cooperman

Westview

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Those Famous Idaho Potatoes, James Valvis Feb 2018

Those Famous Idaho Potatoes, James Valvis

Westview

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Vacant Apartment, Lee Zumpe Feb 2018

Vacant Apartment, Lee Zumpe

Westview

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Three Journals, Scott Thomas Feb 2018

Three Journals, Scott Thomas

Westview

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Whole Life, Richard Donnelly Feb 2018

Whole Life, Richard Donnelly

Westview

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Beer And Pool And The Gravel Voice, Michael Catherwood Feb 2018

Beer And Pool And The Gravel Voice, Michael Catherwood

Westview

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These Wants, Mark Belair Feb 2018

These Wants, Mark Belair

Westview

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Written On The Skin, Robert Cooperman Feb 2018

Written On The Skin, Robert Cooperman

Westview

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What Will Become Of Him?, Robert Cooperman Feb 2018

What Will Become Of Him?, Robert Cooperman

Westview

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‘You Were My First Grade Teacher,’ The Woman Said Smiling, Kevin Acers Feb 2018

‘You Were My First Grade Teacher,’ The Woman Said Smiling, Kevin Acers

Westview

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