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The Secret Language Of The Desert: Poetry, Loss, And Awakening, Elisha P. Holt 2015 California State University - San Bernardino

The Secret Language Of The Desert: Poetry, Loss, And Awakening, Elisha P. Holt

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The speaker of The Desert Survival Guide is seeking to reconcile his own disconnection, from the natural world, the cosmos, his family, and from his sense of his own humanity. The poems in The Desert Survival Guide are a healing ceremony, to come to a place of acceptance regarding the loss of my father. The semi-autobiographical speaker of these poems has lost the immediate physical presence of his father in his life but still retains a deep memory imprint of the father and an unresolved need to process the absence of the father. He is gradually establishing a new connection …


La Llorona Don't Swim The L.A River: A Trickster's Guide To The Poetics Of The Pit, Rosie Angelica Alonso 2015 California State University - San Bernardino

La Llorona Don't Swim The L.A River: A Trickster's Guide To The Poetics Of The Pit, Rosie Angelica Alonso

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La Llorona Don’t Swim The LA River is a collection of poems that explore the issues of growing up in East LA as a young, bilingual Chicana. These poems are an attempt to capture my experiences through story telling by blending Spanish, English, street slang, and the casual spoken diction. The speaker embodies several versions of the trickster figure: linguistic tricksterism, cultural tricksterism, gender tricksterism, and religious tricksterism. She navigates linguistic tricksterism through the code switching of English and Spanish, using Spanglish as her main dialect, and often blending in slang, creating Slanglish. In cultural tricksterism, she focuses on the …


Front Matter, Manuscripts Staff 2015 Butler University

Front Matter, Manuscripts Staff

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Volume 22, Issue 1: Full Issue, Manuscripts Staff 2015 Butler University

Volume 22, Issue 1: Full Issue, Manuscripts Staff

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Boys Are For Baseball, Margaret Sauerteig 2015 Butler University

Boys Are For Baseball, Margaret Sauerteig

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Non-fiction by Margaret Sauerteig


Earth, Robert Petty 2015 Butler University

Earth, Robert Petty

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Poem by Robert Petty


Growing Up, Sandra Orbison 2015 Butler University

Growing Up, Sandra Orbison

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Non-fiction by Sandra Orbison


Justice Or Injustice, Carolyn Wilson 2015 Butler University

Justice Or Injustice, Carolyn Wilson

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Non-fiction by Carolyn Wilson


A Memory Of Straubing, Ann Schmidt 2015 Butler University

A Memory Of Straubing, Ann Schmidt

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Non-fiction by Ann Schmidt


A Strange Friendship, George F. Klein 2015 Butler University

A Strange Friendship, George F. Klein

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Non-fiction by George Klein


The Cloak Room, Kenneth L. Finehout 2015 Butler University

The Cloak Room, Kenneth L. Finehout

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Non-fiction by Kenneth Finehout


Tyranny, William Phelps 2015 Butler University

Tyranny, William Phelps

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Non-fiction by William Phelps


Star Dust, Barbara Dolen 2015 Butler University

Star Dust, Barbara Dolen

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Non-fiction by Barbara Dolen


A Tall Tale, Phyllis Dunn 2015 Butler University

A Tall Tale, Phyllis Dunn

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Non-fiction by Phyllis Dunn


Refuge, Glenda Benjamin 2015 Butler University

Refuge, Glenda Benjamin

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Non-fiction by Glenda Benjamin


My Second Home, Barbara A. Irwin 2015 Butler University

My Second Home, Barbara A. Irwin

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Non-fiction by Barbara Irwin


"Kiddies" Matinees, Nancy Anne Neale 2015 Butler University

"Kiddies" Matinees, Nancy Anne Neale

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Non-fiction by Nance Anne Neale


The Steel Tomb, David L. Hodge 2015 Butler University

The Steel Tomb, David L. Hodge

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Non-fiction by David Hodge


A Journey Into The Past, Betty L. Smelser 2015 Butler University

A Journey Into The Past, Betty L. Smelser

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Non-fiction by Betty L. Smelser


My Reveries, Harriet Marple 2015 Butler University

My Reveries, Harriet Marple

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Non-fiction by Harriet Marple


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