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Maps On The Backs Of Our Eyes, Joan Paulette Robinson
Maps On The Backs Of Our Eyes, Joan Paulette Robinson
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
A collection of poems related to places in the Mojave Desert and the Las Vegas area or in rural central Michigan. Most poems deal with history and memory and the overlapping nature of experience.
The Pine Effect, Andrea Kay Spofford
The Pine Effect, Andrea Kay Spofford
Dissertations
This dissertation includes original poems written during my time at The University of Southern Mississippi.
A Birdhouse At The Bottom Of The Ocean, Sarah C. Howze
A Birdhouse At The Bottom Of The Ocean, Sarah C. Howze
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Yellowhammer, Carrie Chappell
Yellowhammer, Carrie Chappell
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Still Life Moving Fast, Kelly Jones
Still Life Moving Fast, Kelly Jones
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Language Of Trees, Lorraine A. Martinuik
The Language Of Trees, Lorraine A. Martinuik
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The Language of Trees is a poetry collection based on a series of walks, and rooted in the experience of place on a small island off the west coast of Canada. Prose poems and a serial poem that gives the collection its title, reflect the poet's leanings towards experiment. The preface discusses poetics and the poet's technical approach to form.
Perfect, Bailey Gunn
Pablo And Celia, Darren Sean Jackson
Pablo And Celia, Darren Sean Jackson
Doctoral Dissertations
Pablo and Celia, my collection of lyric poems, is composed in several voices, but the personae Pablo and Celia remain the focus. The collection is a sequence formed of both discrete, untitled fragments and more traditionally titled poems that follow the narrative arc of Pablo and Celia’s relationship as they think aloud or write one another. They speak directly and generally in their own syntax and forms, but this rule is violated when they “steal” one another’s voice, as in “Celia on Celia.” There is an element of chaos in terms of formal properties between poems and voices as …
Overgrowth, Anna Laura Reeve
Overgrowth, Anna Laura Reeve
Masters Theses
This collection of poetry explores themes ranging from ovarian cancer and inherited disease to the fertility of the natural world, discovering the vitality of both wanted and unwanted growth. The author uses a variety of poetic forms, from prose poems to free verse, experimenting with aerated and dropped lines, employing vivid and striking images as she writes of her local ground, tensions between native and non-native flora and fauna, the spiritual life, and the female body.
Other: Poems, Catherine Pritchard Childress
Other: Poems, Catherine Pritchard Childress
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This creative thesis is a collection of original poems entitled Other. The poems in Other reflect my study of the aesthetics of poetry as well as that of how women are represented as poets and as the subject of poems. Some of these poems are the product of my particular interest in the use of persona. Most reflect my desire to achieve self-reflection, to write from my experiences and perception, while still maintaining the universality that is an essential element of successful poems.
The critical introduction situates my poems within the framework of the poetic mode Personal Classicism—poetry that …
[No Titles In Utopia], Esteban J. Rodriguez
[No Titles In Utopia], Esteban J. Rodriguez
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
The intended purpose of this thesis it to compose a collection of poetry consisting of four sections with each section containing between four to ten poems. The poems themselves will range between one to three pages and will be divided according to their particular subject matter, such as, but not limited, to childhood reflection, father-son relationships, the estrangement from suburbia and modernized America, and ekphrasis-inspired pieces that weave both art and narrative elements together. My main goal with this collection is to write poems in a clear straightforward manner without obscuring language, and constructing persona narratives that invite the reader …
Samsara, Erica Anzalone
Samsara, Erica Anzalone
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
In Samsara, I bring a spiritual-historical lens to art, war, feminism, religion, and the body in extremis. Although the word samsara resonates mostly within the Hindu and Buddhist faiths, meaning literally to wander through the rounds of death and rebirth, my poetics of transience and trauma crosses cultures, including Muslim, Christian, and Judaic notions of spirituality. Bosnia, Iowa, Boston, and Prague are all shifting sands within the mandala-like hourglass of this collection. My voice often issues from a working class register and speaks with rebellious power from a place of powerlessness: "E-bay nirvana, you want me to yes sir/I'll get …
Always Away, Mollie Bergeron
Always Away, Mollie Bergeron
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
At any given time, there are pages of notes and thoughts running through our minds; these have to come out in some way. In order to stay sane, to stay human, I write poems. These poems are interested in breath and space, memory and nostalgia, loss and water. Each of these ideas has its own fit as part of the poem as well as part of life and being alive. Human emotion is varied through these. Observation and perception, turned into poems through the very physical act of putting words onto a page, allow these memories and experiences to live …
Due Partly To Inertia, Justin Lee Irizarry
Due Partly To Inertia, Justin Lee Irizarry
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
In the preface to Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman said, "The poets of the kosmos advance through all interpositions and coverings and turmoils and stratagems to first principles. They are of use--they dissolve poverty from its need, and riches from its conceit." My poetry aims to exist in Whitman's `kosmos' and in doing so advance through the turmoil and the strategies of certainty to something resembling principles. Politics is a common theme; it is not in an attempt to write political poetry, but an attempt to not leave anything out. Other themes throughout this manuscript include death, music, wanting, having, …
There Are Moments That Hang Suspended, Mark B. Lennon
There Are Moments That Hang Suspended, Mark B. Lennon
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
This project is the culmination of ten years of work in poetry. It was begun in imitation of those who impressed, not only with their fine words and dexterity with language, but also with their clear conviction in their subject material. Reflected in the works of Allen Ginsberg, Walt Whitman, and Adrienne Rich, among others, was evidence of a life lived, in Thoreau's term, deliberately. The writing of poetry seemed to be not simply a means of expression, but a goad to live a life worth examining, and to keep doing so; a progress report for a radical mind.
Politics …
Strange Little Vehicles, Andrew Merecicky
Strange Little Vehicles, Andrew Merecicky
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
It isn't an exploration in or an experiment regarding. It is a praxis, as a commute is the opposite of an adventure. As le chat regarde le poisson. As when one looks at anything, it becomes strange. That is, a thing (a thought, a feeling, Gertrude Stein's "piece of coffee") once considered becomes little and different. It is the world that is large and alike. It is ultimately the similarity, the recognition of which we, who feel small and unique in the grand scheme, find terrifying. Language is always, as Lyn Hejinian wrote, social; it is a vehicle.
As I …
In What Array That They They Were In And Participating Godlike Food, Thomas Jackson Wills
In What Array That They They Were In And Participating Godlike Food, Thomas Jackson Wills
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
I am submitting two manuscripts for my creative dissertation, In What Array That They Were In and Participating Godlike Food. The former is a sequence of odes followed by a brief epic, followed by a cycle of verse dramas, with an ode epilogue. The latter is a book-length excerpt from an epic poem/crime novel/Menippean satire/television show/Dada collage/historical document/vatic investigation that comes in 20 page sections that are supposed to approximate the 42 minutes of an average crime show.
Pyramid Of The Sun, James Joseph Brown
Pyramid Of The Sun, James Joseph Brown
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Pyramid of the Sun is a novel which is experimental in structure. It weaves traditional prose with original poems based on Aztec creation myths. The narrative is not strictly linear, but approaches the plot from several angles - past, present, and future - simultaneously. It comes back to its starting point at the end, like a snake devouring its own tail. The novel takes the Aztec and Mayan belief that time is circular and never-ending and reinterprets it in a contemporary, hard-edged setting that touches down at various points across the globe, including Moscow, Seville, Seoul and Las Vegas. Pyramid …
Dangerous Instincts, Kirsten Holt
Dangerous Instincts, Kirsten Holt
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Dangerous Instincts is a collection of poems unified thematically by recurring and interstitial questions of the wilderness, the natural sciences - particularly astrophysics - the occult, and the mythic universe. These poems explore the mystical implications of the natural world and its meaning in the aesthetic consciousness, particularly in a highly secular century. Implied is the poet’s selfdiscovery and search for the divine. The collection emerges, not simply as interpretation, but a means of coming to terms with the fear of and compulsion to question the universe, and through those questions find illumination in the ordinariness of lived life and …
Scarecrone, Melissa Broder
Three Words: Foreign, Nina Stojkovic
Leaves And Shrapnel, Michael Luke Belch
Leaves And Shrapnel, Michael Luke Belch
EWU Masters Thesis Collection
No abstract provided.
Poetic Instructions On How To Stretch Brain Muscles & Examine Carnal Desires, Guil Parreiras
Poetic Instructions On How To Stretch Brain Muscles & Examine Carnal Desires, Guil Parreiras
Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
Things I Know, Tomoko Sawada
Forced Outage, Caitlin Jackson
Forced Outage, Caitlin Jackson
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection of poems explores an inner emotional life contrasted with a plodding existence in the external world of day to day business as usual. The poems embrace the importance of noting moments of beauty and grace in an otherwise bland landscape, and mourn the difficulty of holding onto such moments as life moves forward. These poems lead the way down bumpy emotional roads and explore the struggle to make human connections in simple circumstances. Most important, they attempt to capture the beauty of the connections that come from these struggles, and the triumphant promise that we are not alone.
The Tigers That Corner Us, Meredith L. Jeffries
The Tigers That Corner Us, Meredith L. Jeffries
EWU Masters Thesis Collection
No abstract provided.
And Still It Moves, Elizabeth Breen
And Still It Moves, Elizabeth Breen
Theses and Dissertations
This manuscript represents thirty-two poems written over three years. Major themes include: split selves, family, death, astronomy and fear of flying. I hope to showcase a diverse range of poetic forms while maintaining a consistent but fluid voice. The collection takes its name from unconfirmed anecdote about Galileo Galilei: when asked by the Italian Inquisition to recant his claim that the earth moved around the sun he did--and in doing so saved his own life. However, legend has it as he left he said under his breath eppur si muove or "still it moves." Regardless of what we say about …
Eruv, Eryn Green
Eruv, Eryn Green
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Eruv is a collection of poems exploring the interstices between the Judaic concept of Eruvin and the poetic traditions of dictation, field and personist poetics. The poems that represent the body of this work are explorations of the ways in which poetry empties and fills a space, and what might be implied for our shared conceptions of ‘Home’ and ‘Self’ by these tendencies.
Homing : Poetry ; &, An Essay On The Poetic Leap In The Late Work Of R.S. Thomas, Shevaun Cooley
Homing : Poetry ; &, An Essay On The Poetic Leap In The Late Work Of R.S. Thomas, Shevaun Cooley
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
Homing, as a collection, speaks to the capacity and yearning to navigate our way towards something we might call home. In animal behaviour, this seems like an instinct, hard-wired to the body. It is something I envy. By comparison, the instinct, in human behaviour, feels muffled and complicated.
These poems move between two places in which I feel ‘at home’, whatever that means: the south-west of Western Australia, where I was born and raised, and the north-west of Wales, where I lived for a time, and find myself returning to, drawn not by blood, but by longing, and a deep …