The Secret Language Of The Desert: Poetry, Loss, And Awakening,
2015
California State University - San Bernardino
The Secret Language Of The Desert: Poetry, Loss, And Awakening, Elisha P. Holt
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
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,
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
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
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,
2015
Butler University
Volume 22, Issue 1: Full Issue,
2015
Butler University
Boys Are For Baseball,
2015
Butler University
Boys Are For Baseball, Margaret Sauerteig
Manuscripts
Non-fiction by Margaret Sauerteig
Earth,
2015
Butler University
Growing Up,
2015
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Justice Or Injustice,
2015
Butler University
A Memory Of Straubing,
2015
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A Strange Friendship,
2015
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The Cloak Room,
2015
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Tyranny,
2015
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Star Dust,
2015
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A Tall Tale,
2015
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Refuge,
2015
Butler University
My Second Home,
2015
Butler University
"Kiddies" Matinees,
2015
Butler University
The Steel Tomb,
2015
Butler University
A Journey Into The Past,
2015
Butler University
My Reveries,
2015
Butler University
