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A Ghost On Earth, Alive, Nina Li

The Mercury

No abstract provided.

‘The Mystic Drum’: Critical Commentary On Gabriel Okara’S Love Lyrics, Chukwuma Azuonye

Africana Studies Faculty Publication Series

Structurally, Okara’s love lyric, “The Mystic Drum,” evinces a tripartite ritual pattern of initiation from innocence through intimacy to experience. By comparison to the way of Zen as manifested in the experience of Zen Master, Ch’ing Yuän Wei-hsin, this pattern resolves itself into an emotional and epistemological journey from conventional knowledge (born of innocence) through more intimate knowledge (born of closer apperception of reality) to substantial knowledge (born of experience). The substantial knowledge born of experience empowers the lover to understand that beneath the surface attractiveness of what we know very well (such as the women we love) may lie …

Lean To, Allan Popa

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

A collection of poems.

Wires And Light, Ashley Inguanta

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Wires and Light is an experimental story cycle composed of fiction and hybrid pieces, which blend poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction together. The characters in these pieces are propelled by uncertainty and a strong desire to be connected to places, people. If these characters do find the connections they are searching for, most of these ―joining‖ moments are fleeting. A girl, straight out of high school, misses her ―wonder boy,‖ befriends a woman nearly a decade older, fists her in the desert while California‘s on fire. A woman who dives horses off the Atlantic City Steel Pier is forced to …

Commonthought (2011), Commonthought Staff

Commonthought

This issue features works created by Lesley University students and covers a broad range of topics. The work itself crosses many disciplines from creative writing to visual arts.

Wiggle Veil (Or, Love Needs Objects), Adrienne Lynch

LSU Master's Theses

The six sculptural works that comprise my thesis exhibition emerged from a prolonged series of investigations into the intricately interconnected phenomenon of embodied experience in the world as we know it. These works explore the connections between mysteries in our inner and outer worlds, taking as inescapable fact the notion that our bodily vessels, in all their complexity and subtlety, are the vehicles through which we encounter the world. As such, this work posits embodiment as both frame and anchor for all knowledge and experience. These sculptures, made from ceramic materials and mixed media such as sugar, salt, string, and …

Footprints Fill And Fade, James Conrad Beck

Master's Theses

A collection of poems with preface. Poems are inspired by Buddhist thought and the poetry of Ko Un, William Carlos Williams, Robert Creeley, and Rayomond Carver among others.

The Poet, In One Last Desperate Attempt To Please His Public, Lays On The Blarney, Louis Phillips

Bryant Literary Review

The words in this poem are quite ordinary.

Morning Report With Other Disturbances, Stephen R. Roberts

Bryant Literary Review

You might want to head to work a bit early this morning.

Papa, Scott Walmsley

Bryant Literary Review

His crow's feet walked a thousand miles

His dark bags carried all his treasures.

Waiting For The Sun, Nina Bennett

Bryant Literary Review

Venice Beach is smaller than I imagined,

not large enough to hold its history

Leonard Cohen Sings All Night, John Tustin

Bryant Literary Review

Leonard Cohen sings all night

on my miserable wet black drive

Nights When Father Jived With Demon Rum, Madelyn Garner

Bryant Literary Review

Dogs yelped. Mother spat blood. Which explains

the slamming of doors, clawing through back room windows,

Sowing The Seeds, Janet Proulx

Bryant Literary Review

Grandfather would sit in a rocker by the window

smoking a pipe and gazing upon his bountiful garden

Bingo, Seth Benton

Bryant Literary Review

Mosquitoes spatter the wall

beside us as the sweet rot

smell of marsh at low tide

Why I Cannot Love Picasso, Devon Miller-Duggan

Bryant Literary Review

Sure, he gets that everything is broken

And still charged with lusts.

Posted: Don't Poach, Nathan Whiting

Bryant Literary Review

You now read an uncollected poem.

If a poem collector, you should

John 3:10010000110, John Supinski

Bryant Literary Review

Welcome to the kingdom of the Immortal

Where races are run barefoot

Pecan Grove Review Volume 12, St. Mary's University

Pecan Grove Review

Creative writings by students, faculty, and staff of the St. Mary's University community.

Lights And Shadows - 2011, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine

Overlapping Mornings, Joshua Andrew Cembellin

Master's Theses

This thesis project, Overlapping Mornings, is a book-length collection of poetry based upon my family. Throughout the collection I examine the lives of various family members, particularly my father, grandfather, and great-grandfather. In exploring the lives of my progenitors through poetry's lens, I strive to discover my own role as a direct member of this male lineage.

Comprised of four parts, the collection generally follows a chronological order that begins with poems about my childhood and ends with poems of the present. Part Two is a prose section that includes important biographical information about my great-grandfather, Edwin Schivo. This …

The Relationship Between Technology And The Body In Muriel Rukeyser's Poetry, Fathi Nasaif

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

This thesis studies Muriel Rukeyser‟s view of the relationship between technology and the body by analyzing some of her poetry in her Collected Poems and her philosophy of poetry in her book The Life of Poetry. The thesis also deals with the relationship between science and art; Rukeyser thought of science and art as supplementing and complementing each other through her idea of dynamism in nature and in artistic thought. In addition, my thesis discusses some critical responses to Rukeyser‟s poetry and philosophy of art. The theories that form the basis of my study are Rukeyser‟s idea of relational …

An Uncurling Hand Isolation In Public Places, Kimberly Kelley Lundblom

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The creative thesis ―An Uncurling Hand: Isolation in Public Places‖ is a collection of poetry concerned with ideological dichotomies: conventional domestication against the exotic, class divides and its implications for identity, and most importantly the feeling of isolation even when surrounded by others.

They Burn You They Bury You They Pull You From The Water, Travis Eugene Morris

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Ditch Row Ballot of Characters In Daviess County, Kentucky, the Ohio River's ancient bank separates the people living in Owensboro. Those drowning in the plasmatic shallows, in the flood plains of the city, are a vigilant, tribal array of religions and mysticism. The closer a community comes to the actual banks of the river, the more enflamed characters of families become. As most places in Kentucky associate themselves with distinct counties--never being from a city--the people inside Daviess County align on streets. They Burn You They Bury You They Pull You from the Water, is the phoenix of one family …

No Star Galore, Zachary Cody Lee Carlsen

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Not you, me shadows of stainedglass on normal glass, where nothing moves not even if we say an owl can sing nothing changes.

Camas, Winter 2011

Camas

Homing / Kim Todd -- The Line of Fire / William Carleton -- Of Forest and Sea / Hudson Spivey -- Winter Texans / Carrie Laben -- Going to Randsburg / Erica Olsen -- III / Jess Berry -- I Am King Arthur’s Son / John Paul Calavitta -- On Jaguars in Arizona / Jennifer Duffield White -- Tucannon River / David Tagnani -- Visiting Hours / Jolene Brink -- Pronghorn / Richard Donnelly -- Aubergine / Jessica Babcock -- Photography / Gej Jones, Cassie Holmgren, Colby Brown, Doug Davis, Sara J. Call, Jessica Babcock, Kip Sikora, Ryan T. Bell, …

From Amiri Baraka's Airplane Poems To Nathaniel Mackey's Ythmic Ships Poststruccturalism's I'Mpact On Experimental Writing In The African Diaspora, Tess Somerville

Theses & ETDs

This thesis focuses on two African American writers who make very different contributions to our understanding of a �black aesthetic.� The discrepancies between Amiri Baraka and Nathaniel Mackey�s attitudes towards writing can be attributed to a generational divide. While Baraka�s early project was imbued with 1960�s Black Power ideology, Mackey incorporates many of the ideas generated by the poststructuralist theorists in the 1970�s and 1980�s. These different theoretical climates greatly impacted their attitudes towards orality/textuality, performance, and gender. Chapter one discusses the status of speech-based poetics before and after poststructuralism emerged, noting poststructuralism�s challenge to the authenticity traditionally associated with …

A Trick Of Light, Kim Hancock

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Celestial Bodies, Jared Calvin White

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The following is a collection of original poetry written over a span of three years while attending the University of South Florida. The poetry is divided into five numbered sections, marking the major thematic divisions. Preceding the poetry is a critical introduction to the work that outlines the author's developing thematic ideology.

Children Of House, Grant White

Theses and Dissertations

A collection of poems