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Crescendo, Jenna Cashera Jan 2008

Crescendo, Jenna Cashera

The Laureate

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Recalling A Mood To Be Aghast., Nathan Lipps Jan 2008

Recalling A Mood To Be Aghast., Nathan Lipps

The Laureate

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Carrion, Simon Thalmann Jan 2008

Carrion, Simon Thalmann

The Laureate

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Wake, Jacob Frye Jan 2008

Wake, Jacob Frye

The Laureate

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Grandpa's Collections, Keith Carver Jan 2008

Grandpa's Collections, Keith Carver

The Laureate

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In Sight Of The White Cathedral., Nathan Lipps Jan 2008

In Sight Of The White Cathedral., Nathan Lipps

The Laureate

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To The Squirrel On Rose, Jessica Rethman Jan 2008

To The Squirrel On Rose, Jessica Rethman

The Laureate

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French Vanilla, Ren Kim Jan 2008

French Vanilla, Ren Kim

The Laureate

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Echo, Jennifer Dempsey Jan 2008

Echo, Jennifer Dempsey

The Laureate

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A Silence In Perfect Cursive, Carissa Dismuke Jan 2008

A Silence In Perfect Cursive, Carissa Dismuke

The Laureate

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Archipelago, Rebecah Pulsifer Jan 2008

Archipelago, Rebecah Pulsifer

The Laureate

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The Laureate, 7th Edition (2008) Jan 2008

The Laureate, 7th Edition (2008)

The Laureate

Table of Contents

  • 11 Andrew Soliday - to-do list
  • 12 Carolyn Racine - Consumption
  • 13 Rebecca Mansberger - How I'll Know if You Are Home
  • 14 Victoria Blevins - The Things We Don't Talk About
  • 19 Jodi Hovey - The Ocean is Sitting alone in a Chair in the Corner of a Nearly Empty Room
  • 20 Caroline Lampinen - Camille
  • 21 Shoshana Mcintosh - Drink to the Moon
  • 22 Kathleen Tarleton - Hyena
  • 23 Ashley Christopher - Theodore's Pants
  • 30 Amber Adams - Untitled
  • 31 Kimberly Knopf - Harvest's Dusk
  • 32 Stephanie Yates - Phantom
  • 34 Carissa Dismuke - A …


Untitled, Amber Adams Jan 2008

Untitled, Amber Adams

The Laureate

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In My Bedroom/Winter Has Been Far Too Long, Andrew Soliday Jan 2008

In My Bedroom/Winter Has Been Far Too Long, Andrew Soliday

The Laureate

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The Pains In My Stomach, Theresa Thomas Jan 2008

The Pains In My Stomach, Theresa Thomas

The Laureate

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A Post-Marxist Perspective On Chuck Palahniuk’S Early Novels And The Four Plays Of Incarcerated, Ron Riekki Aug 2007

A Post-Marxist Perspective On Chuck Palahniuk’S Early Novels And The Four Plays Of Incarcerated, Ron Riekki

Dissertations

Incarcerated: a collection of four plays includes the plays Home Schooling, Good Behavior, 2 Mics, and All Saints' Day. Incarcerated explores Foucault's carceral networking and Althusser's Ideological and Repressive State Apparatuses as exemplified in characters faced with such cataclysmic events as the Holocaust (Home Schooling and All Saints' Day) and the degradation/slavery of the American prison system (Good Behavior and 2 Mics). In this RCG-centered working class playwriting, we see how performativity is in inherent in carceral sociology, where each character in all four plays has to take masks and costumes and roles in order to …


The Biographic And Poetic Dimensions In Gary Synder’S Green Buddhism Poetry: Cold Mountain, Mountains And Rivers Without End, And Danger On Peaks, Byoungkook Park Aug 2007

The Biographic And Poetic Dimensions In Gary Synder’S Green Buddhism Poetry: Cold Mountain, Mountains And Rivers Without End, And Danger On Peaks, Byoungkook Park

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From the perspective of ecology, many scholars have examined works of Gary Synder, who is an environmental activist, a peasant-Buddhist, and one of the most beloved and significant poets in the East and West. While his poems have been widely read, they have been rarely articulated from the perspective of East Asian Mahayana Buddhism or, which I would call, Green Buddhism. Considering this, my dissertation focuses on Snyder's Green Buddhism poetry and delineates the concept of Green Buddhism and how it has emerged in his Green Buddhism poetry over the past fifty years. According to my research, his poetic dimensions …


Four Roads: A Novel, Kelly Daniels Jun 2007

Four Roads: A Novel, Kelly Daniels

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An American tourist is attacked by peasants, who suspect her of stealing infants to sell on a shadowy organ donation market. Several other attacks follow, prompting a travel advisory, which in turn causes tourists to flee the country, fracturing the already weak economy, and creating more chaos still. Meanwhile, death squads patrol the mountains to "disappear" anyone suspected of harboring sympathy for the rebels, and the usual assortment of criminals use any means available to make a buck. This is Guatemala, hardly a vacationer's paradise; yet several Americans have elected to remain in country amidst such turmoil.

Four Roads, a …


The High School Play, Kevin Drzakowski Apr 2007

The High School Play, Kevin Drzakowski

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The High School Play is a creative work, a full-length play in three acts. Set in suburban Richard M. Nixon High School, the play explores the notion o f adolescent identity while satirizing the American educational system’s artificial construction o f these identities. The play is especially concerned with theatrically representing the way students view each other through flawed frameworks based on preconceived notions o f race, gender, sexuality, and intelligence, as well as how this behavior shapes adolescents’ construction o f their own self-conceptions. The High School Play also deals with the difficulty schools experience in addressing the increasingly …


2007 Complete Digest, Department Of English Jan 2007

2007 Complete Digest, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

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Rain Town, Melanie Crow Aug 2006

Rain Town, Melanie Crow

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My project, a collection of poetry, examines both loss and transformation. Personal loss informs the poems, but the work also addresses how the speaker is accorded insight into the world because of loss and is transformed. The work takes into account mythology, science, and the act of writing in order to understand what it means to live in mutability. Many of the poems demonstrate an acute awareness of the body. Robert Lowell and Jorie Graham are both writers who have informed my poems in this way; both explore a dual consciousness of loss and renewal and both represent moments of …


Worry, Kristen Tracy Aug 2005

Worry, Kristen Tracy

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The poems that make up Worry investigate themes of feminine struggle, identity, and survival. They move at a fast pace, and many of the metaphors are drawn from the animal kingdom.


Starlight Drive, William R. Reynolds Jr. Jun 2005

Starlight Drive, William R. Reynolds Jr.

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Starlight Drive is a book-length manuscript of poems that reflects my abiding interest in how poetry can use the fiction writer's tools, such as characterization and setting, without sacrificing the beauty of the lyric. Like Rodney Jones, I write about my north Alabama childhood filtered through the lens of my adult life here in the Midwest. My field of perception does not begin in a cotton field like Jones', but on a cul-de-sac in a middle-class neighborhood of Huntsville, where my father was an engineer for NASA. The poems in my manuscript show my protagonist moving through a landscape peopled …


Dear Beyond, Kirsten Hemmy Aug 2004

Dear Beyond, Kirsten Hemmy

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My project. Dear Beyond, a collection of poetry, examines the connection between landscape—both internal and external, or private and public—and environment. My poetry reflects my own unique background and my struggles with emplacement, or the placing of oneself in any particular landscape. It aims to challenge dominant paradigms of voice, expression, and even inquiry; it questions traditional, systematic forms of inquiry such as the Cartesian idea of an essential separation between object and subject. Culture and landscape, I have discovered, manifest themselves everywhere, in variegated forms: in spaciousness or intimacy, in internal and external contexts, in tactile experiences, in focused …


Mothers Of Us All: When Does Political Message Take Precedence Over Art In Some Modern And Contemporary Women’S Poetry, Shanda Hansma Blue Easterday Aug 2004

Mothers Of Us All: When Does Political Message Take Precedence Over Art In Some Modern And Contemporary Women’S Poetry, Shanda Hansma Blue Easterday

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This dissertation contains an essay with the above title, as well as two sections of poems. The first section of poems is entitled Maria Sibylla Merian, Artist and Naturalist , and is a collection of poems about, and in the voice of, Merian. Many of these are what are known as personna poems. The second section of poems is entitled The Beekeeper's Wife , and uses autobiography as a framework for communicating the humor in human relationships, and for illustrating the surrealism in the human race's relationships with the natural world.

My research for my essay entailed the study of …


Stylus, Megan Drozan Jan 2003

Stylus, Megan Drozan

The Laureate

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Looking Out Of A Bus Window, Vietnam, Allison Vonmaur Jan 2003

Looking Out Of A Bus Window, Vietnam, Allison Vonmaur

The Laureate

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Just Another Poem About Fall, Dan Frayer Jan 2003

Just Another Poem About Fall, Dan Frayer

The Laureate

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Photo, Brooke Payment Jan 2003

Photo, Brooke Payment

The Laureate

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Postcards, Julia Bozyk Jan 2003

Postcards, Julia Bozyk

The Laureate

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