A Negotiation In Meaning: Identifying American Cultural Touchstones,
2015
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
A Negotiation In Meaning: Identifying American Cultural Touchstones, Jayne Jaya Todai
Honors Theses
How can discussing a poem lead to a meaningful conversation? What if Americans used common poems as their nation's cultural touchstones? In my essay, I will explore how poems that serve as American cultural touchstones might develop better communicators within the United States. I will propose a template that determines which poems would qualify as these national touchstones.
Impact Of Ekphrastic Poetry Upon My Writing,
2015
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Impact Of Ekphrastic Poetry Upon My Writing, Lacy C. Snapp
Honors Theses
This thesis contains an introduction in which I will define ekphrastic poetry and provide an explication of some ekphrastic poetry written throughout history, followed by a conclusion in which I will include my own poetry, both ekphrastic and non, followed by an explication of my progress. The first section will be about questioning how the selected poets use their chosen image to enhance their own writing, and the true purpose of ekphrastic poetry. The second section will show how my poetry has developed since this project began and I started focusing on ekphrastic poetry. When I write ekphrastic poetry, not …
The Ladies Here Have Topographic Hands,
2015
DePauw University
The Ladies Here Have Topographic Hands, Mary Ardery
A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University
No abstract provided.
Blue Girls,
2015
DePauw University
Blue Girls, Jordan Lienhoop
A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University
No abstract provided.
Orbiting,
2015
DePauw University
Orbiting, Mary Ardery
A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University
No abstract provided.
Plum Undone,
2015
DePauw University
Plum Undone, Zach Manges
A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University
No abstract provided.
I No Longer Hear The Wind,
2015
Utah State University
I No Longer Hear The Wind, Robert Tyson Steele
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
I No Longer Hear the Wind is a collection of poetry that explores an unnamed narrator's relationship with nature and civilization. The poems follow this narrator through his fragmented journey of trying to find nature in its most authentic form. As the narrator jumps in and out of civilization, he realizes that he ultimately cannot find nature, even in the most wild of places. Understanding this dilemma, the narrator seeks to connect with society while simultaneously avoiding, resisting, and even undermining civilization, technology, and authority.
The collection draws its influence from nature poets like Rumi, Whitman, Thoreau, and many others …
Carlton Hill, November // Dream In Which Iquala Is The Genesee,
2015
SUNY Geneseo
Carlton Hill, November // Dream In Which Iquala Is The Genesee, Evan Goldstein
Gandy Dancer Archives
No abstract provided.
70mm,
2015
SUNY Purchase
Fish Boy // Anniston, Al,
2015
SUNY Geneseo
Anxiety In Motion,
2015
Erie Community College
Review: Panorama Taken While Rolling Down A Hill,
2015
SUNY Geneseo
Review: Panorama Taken While Rolling Down A Hill, Joseph O'Connor
Gandy Dancer Archives
No abstract provided.
Police Erasure,
2015
SUNY Fredonia
Vilnius // English Kills // Bushwick, Brooklyn,
2015
SUNY Geneseo
Vilnius // English Kills // Bushwick, Brooklyn, Monica Wendel
Gandy Dancer Archives
No abstract provided.
Azalea,
2015
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Azalea, Kimberly Renee Driggers
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This collection of poems, with its focus on home and absence, is named for the azalea, the thinking of home bush.
The Sorcerer,
2015
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
The Sorcerer, William Carlisle Goehring
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
A collection of poems from 2011-2015.
Kania,
2015
Boise State University
Kania, Indrani Sengupta
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
Kania begins as a poetic revision of fairy tales, an attempt to extract the potential female narratives buried within the source texts, in their stifling archetypes. In the spirit of Angela Carter, it attempts to manipulate the most recognizable fairy tale motifs in order to explore issues of violence, deviant desire, sexuality, and monstrosity. As the text evolves, the archetypal “monster” shifts in location, becoming increasingly internal to the woman/speaker. First “he” is the abuser, then “she” is the errant woman, then finally, “it” is the interior anxiety, the self”s nightmare, ungendered and constantly in flux. The manuscript strives, through …
Bleach, Cream, And Other Dolls,
2015
Boise State University
Bleach, Cream, And Other Dolls, Elizabeth Diane Mackness
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
Bleach, Cream, and Other Dolls questions current rape culture and the political power plays that take place behind it. As a whole, this work also investigates how the positioning of a speaker affects the ability to communicate, build and participate in relationships. Through this problem each speaker’s identity becomes skewed and the speakers struggle to find their identity through various mediums—revenge, death, penetration, definition, nature, skin and disintegration (among other possibilities).
Auto/Aura,
2015
Boise State University
Auto/Aura, Michael Wanzenried
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
I will make the poems of materials, for I think they are to be the most spiritual poems, And I will make the poems of my body and of mortality
—Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, section 6
Auto/Aura attempts to follow through on Whitman’s project by literally using materials from the world to create a situation that challenges the traditional reader-poet relationship. The poems here diverge from the page into a three-dimensional setting to continue in a largely personal and arbitrary lineage (as all poet-historical lineages tend to be according to Jerome Rothenberg) of 19th and 20th century poetic …
Volume 17, Issue 2: Full Issue,
2015
Butler University
