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A Right-Hand Man: A Novel, Christopher Giofreda

English Theses & Dissertations

This is the first half of a Catholic novel about a mailman with a hook hand. It is about the power of friendship and invites us to think about the posthuman.

Sub/Mission, Abigail Naomi Brunt

English Theses & Dissertations

The poems included in this manuscript look at the ways in which women have been silenced and forced to submit, with emphasis on, though not limited to, a patriarchal fundamentalist Christian subculture called Quiverfull. Part autobiography, part documentary and part myth, the manuscript explores the various ways such damage becomes interwoven into women’s identities and stories, but also the ways in which women find resilience and strength.

Safe Passage To The End Of Earth, Gregory Martin Chandler

English Theses & Dissertations

Safe Passage to the End of Earth is representative of my work as a poet and my ideas about the world. It’s broken down into four sections that approach the world from different perspectives. Each section reflects my interests mostly independent of one another, though they connect thematically. The order of the sections, and the order of the poems within the sections, reflects what I felt was the strongest sense of motion from one idea to the next, beginning with a poem that touches on many of the themes in a single page and moving through politics, history, religion, and …

Sugar Acts, Amanda Raquel Gomez

English Theses & Dissertations

Sugar Acts is a poetry collection which seeks to incorporate themes such as women, gender trauma, the body and its position toward and against society, identity, heritage, and colonization, topics which can be considered abstractions but have very visceral and real physical manifestations. These themes wreak havoc on the body, namely the female colonized body, and as a Puerto-Rican American woman, I am asking the question of what it means to make sense of 21st century colonialism. This thesis, then, attempts to discover the ways in which trauma resides in the body and continues to be passed on to each …

The Last Cherokee Of Blue Ridge, Dexter Benjamin Gore

English Theses & Dissertations

This work is an exploration into the life of a young queer man in the United States Army charged with aiding in the removal of the Cherokee Native Americans during the 1830s Indian Removal. It is my hope that my characters and setting bring attention to the politics of queerness and nativism in a way that has not been allowed by mainstream fiction.

Launch Announcement For In The Hollow Of The Land, 2 Vols., Glen R E Phillips Professor

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

Announcing the launch of Glen Phillip's Collected Poetry, 1968-2018

The Beholder, Allan Lake

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

A poem on the effect of landscape on the emotions.

Sprung, John W. Gordon

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

A poem that that explores the Australian landscape, an environment of despair, and ennui.

Review Of Taboo, By Kim Scott, Picador-Australia, 2017, Rashida Murphy

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

Kim Scott's Taboo is a story about beginnings and endings.This novel reminds the reader of the circularity of stories, and how those stories are shaped by intent and weighed by landscape. Scott speaks of dispossession, abuse, colonialism, addiction and racism in lyrical and melancholy prose. The men and women who walk through these pages are startlingly aware of their failings and equally forgiving of those failings in others. There are no quick fixes and the story vacillates between despair and hope. Yet this is not a grim story. The lucidity of its prose lifts it beyond the despair in its …

The Journey Of The Water, James Kelly

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

This piece follows the course of the Mapocho river in Chile from its origins in the Andes through to its discharge into the Pacific Ocean. It has also sought to include a number of Scottish words to create a form of polyglossia and experiment with the texture of the prose.

On The Wire, Sarah F. Lumba

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

“On the Wire” is a work of creative non-fiction that weaves together a local myth and actual events to describe the devastating effects of Typhoon Ketsana, which struck Marikina, a small but progressive city in the Philippines, on September 2009. It explores how colonial subjugation has erased a people’s memory of their collective soul and has severed their strong ties to the land, thus putting the lives of future generations in jeopardy.

Poetry Of Roe 8, Nandi Chinna

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

Poetry of Roe 8

The occasion for the writing of these poems was activism surrounding the controversial highway known as the Roe 8 extension in the areas of Cockburn and Fremantle in Western Australia. Planned in the 1950s, Roe 8 is contentious for a number of reasons, including extraordinary political deals over funding, undue process regarding environmental reporting, lack of a business case, inadequate noise and traffic modelling, erasure of Indigenous heritage sites, and clearing of the sensitive Beeliar wetlands and Coolbellup banksia woodlands which were designated a Threatened Ecological Community in 2016. During the summer of 2016/2017 contractors started …

Escarpment Spores, Terry Trowbridge

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

This poem is a reflection on my ecological relationship with the Niagara escarpment, a geographical feature I've lived with for 37 years.

Slater Woodlice, Shaun Salmon

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

A poem.

Hyde Park, Perth, Rita Tognini

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

This poem explores the past and present history of Hyde Park in Perth and the meaning of this landscape, in its various manifestations over time, for its users. The poem was conceived as a triptych, with all three sections visible simultaneously. A version of the poem in this form is submitted (in landscape format). A version in portrait format is also submitted, in case it is not possible to publish the landscape format

Review Of Thinking Continental: Writing The Planet One Place At A Time, John Charles Ryan Dr

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

Review of Thinking Continental: Writing the Planet One Place at a Time (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2017) edited by Tom Lynch, Susan Naramore Maher, Drucilla Wall and O. Alan Weltzien

On The Trail Of A Ghost, Nicole Hodgson

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

In the process of researching the life of an early settler of the Israelite Bay area, the author comes to a much deeper understanding of the many ways in which the landscape has changed in the past one hundred and fifty years.

Saturn/Cronus-11, Joel Weishaus

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

“Saturn/Cronus-11” is from a Cosmography, an in-progress project of Literary Digital Art that invokes the gods of seven planets in our celestial neighborhood; plus The Sun, The Moon; and Incognita. It includes my trope of invagination: fragments exhumed from the authored corpus and transplanted into the body of a living text, which, along with superimposed images and animations, advances us toward a more magnanimous, transdisciplinary sphere. The project also includes notes.

Balajura Walks, Joyce Parkes

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

Poem

From The Darling Ranges To The Swan, Joyce Parkes

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

poem

In The State Of Karri And Jarrah, Joyce Parkes

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

Poem

Prefatory Note From The Director Of The International Centre For Landscape And Langauge, Glen R E Phillips Professor

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

A Preface to the Special Issue of Landscapes.

Catharsis, Thomas Harris '18

Heliotrope: IMSA's Arts & Literary Magazine

No abstract provided.

A Message To The Prideful, By Anonymous

Heliotrope: IMSA's Arts & Literary Magazine

No abstract provided.

Six Meter Surge, Mark C. Childs

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

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Co2 Prayers, Mark C. Childs

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

No abstract provided.

不要後悔, Rattnak Sokhom

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

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The Manner Of Your Scramble, Henry D. Goldkamp

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

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I Am A Vacation, Jeanne O'Halloran

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

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Perdida Para Kiribati, Megan Wildhood

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

No abstract provided.