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Eraser Lips, Emmie Bristow

The Oval

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Mutable Signs, Megan Jessop

The Oval

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Spilling Light, Megan Jessop

The Oval

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Haiku's Reception And Practice In Contemporary North American Poetry, Judy Halebsky, Ayako Takahashi

Collected Faculty Scholarship

This article traces the chronological development of haiku translation, which includes Imagism and haiku, the transitional period around the 1950's, the emergence of English Haiku and contemporary haiku practice. To examine the influence of haiku in contemporary American poetry, the discussion includes west coast fi-ee verse poets whose work draws from Basho's haiku in different ways.

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Translations And Migrations Of The Poetic Diary: Roy Kiyooka’S Wheels, Judy Halebsky

Collected Faculty Scholarship

Formal aspects of haiku inform Roy Kiyooka’s 1969 travel journal Wheels. In contrast to earlier scholarship, this study differentiates haiku traditions in Japan from English language haiku in North America. This framework reveals how Kiyooka employs select aspects of haiku practice to voice his othered cultural location.

The Library, Emmie Bristow

The Oval

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Yusef Komunyakaa Folio, Yusef Komunyakaa

Corresponding Voices

In this poem, the speaker is talking to his dog about a tune whose notes bent life into the perpetual question - a grasping, a condemnation, where the cure was part Coltrane, part Miles, and part love.

Cross The Line: Ventures Of A Collegiate Student-Athlete, Jolynne Denman

Honors Capstones

Capstone submitted as a graduation requirement for the BSU Honors Program.

Distinguished Poet José Angel Araguz: The Interview, José Angel Araguz, A. Molotkov, John Sibley Williams

Faculty Publications

This interview with poet José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.

Come: A Poetry Manuscript, Virginia Henry

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This is a poetry collection divided into two parts. “North Street” is a sequence of poems that investigates the intersection of solitude and fear. “The Tinder Poems or Encounters of Another Kind” is a sequence that uses sexual experiences as a catalyst to explore the collision of power, love, and cultural expectation.

Sink Hollow Volume 2

Sink Hollow

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Sink Hollow Spring 2016

Sink Hollow

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Mourning Lions And Penelope’S Revenge, Corinne Ondine Pache

Classical Studies Faculty Research

This paper focuses on the simile comparing Penelope to a lion encircled by men in Odyssey 4.791–94. Lion similes in Homeric poetry typically depict warriors in combat situations and so the description of Penelope as a trapped predator facing battle is surprising. The encircled beast of the simile is in a dangerous situation, but the lion’s plight is left unresolved as Penelope falls asleep. Many critics note the connection between Penelope the lion and Odysseus, who is compared to the same animal on five occasions in the poem, most notably in Books 22 and 23 after he slaughters the suitors. …

Two Entries In The Dictionary Of Caribbean And Afro-Latin American Biography, Ana B. Rodriguez Navas

Modern Languages and Literatures: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Two entries in the Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography: Gastón Baquero and Lino Ayllón D'ou.

When I Am Away From The Water And You, John Davis

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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Contemplations Of A Colonel’S Remembrances Of A Ukrainian Girl, Nicole Yurcaba

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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My Mother Cleans And Starts The Gumbo, Karen Maceira

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

No abstract provided.

The Cordwainer, Terresa Wellborn

BYU Studies

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Gathering, Vivian M. Adams

BYU Studies

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Pentimento, Sandy Coomer

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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Heron Song, Elizabeth Garcia

BYU Studies

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Almost A Psalm, About Inheritance, Benjamin Blackhurst

BYU Studies

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My Assumption Is This, Alex Blonder

Murray State Theses and Dissertations

My Assumption Is This. A collection of poems that explore moments of ordinary life in an effort to understand the pieces of human experience.

The Truth About Parmenides' Doxa, Christopher Kurfess

Ancient Greek and Roman Studies Faculty Publications

In a recent article in this journal, Néstor-Luis Cordero has offered an interesting account of how scholars may have been misreading Parmenides' poem for centuries, as well as some provocative suggestions on how to correct that misreading. He calls into question the prevalent notion of the Doxa as Parmenides' account of the phenomenal world, and he challenges the standard arrangement of the fragments that assigns lines featuring 'physical' topics to that portion of the poem. The 'Doxa of Parmenides', if that phrase is understood to imply that Parmenides himself embraced doxai of any kind is, Cordero claims, an imaginary …

On Waking, He Makes His Bed, Elizabeth Garcia

BYU Studies

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Where Does That Flower Bloom, Conner Gordon 16

Honor Scholar Theses

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The Poetry Of Wilmer Mills, Rachael Acheson

Theses and Dissertations

This paper seeks to contextualize the work of Wilmer Mills, a late, minor Southeastern American poet, within the complex and frequently misread tradition of New Formalism, as this manifested in the United States shortly after World War II. The analysis places Mills‟s work in conversation with the formalist philosophy of former U.S. Poet Laureate Richard Wilbur, and it suggests that both Mills‟s poetry and his reception amongst fellow academics who adhered to a more progressive philosophy demonstrates the continued relevance of this older, less-often discussed strain of formalism in American poetry. An appendix presents the first checklist of Mills‟s published …

Santee Frazier Folio, Santee Frazier

Corresponding Voices

"Ventilator" series is a part of a longer work-in progress; a chiaroscuro where one image seems to black out as another presses through.

Happily Ever After And Other Lies My Childhood Told Me, Rachel Anna Neff

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

A manuscript-length book of poetry with a critical preface centered on the idea of mythology, nursery rhymes, and foundational (Western) fictions and how the cultural norms and expectations that those texts create influence an individual, particularly with respect to gender and gender identity.

La Gente Entre Nosotros / The People Between Us, Gerard Stephen Robledo

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

This collection stems from the tradition of poetry of witness / anthro-poetry, and chronicles the lives of individuals within communities who are affected by racism, ignorance, and Americanization. The catalyst for this collection was the massive influx of immigrant children fleeing South and Central American, and Mexico to the United States in the summer of 2014. This event spurred a whirlwind of anger, confusion, and racism, which left children in the political crossfire. Thus, this collection is aptly titled La Gente Entre Nosotros / The People Between Us.

In this collection, I take the approach of the anthro-poet, to document …