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Venom, Sarah I. Goltsman

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.

"Woven Into The Deeps Of Life": Death, Redemption, And Memory In Bob Kaufman's Poetry, Peter Davis

Pomona Senior Theses

The scholars who have taken up the task of writing about Bob Kaufman have most often done so in response to a perceived demand: the lack of Kaufman scholarship, readership, anthology, publicity, canonization. The basis of this need is clear: Kaufman is almost never included as even a third-string Beat, a fringe Surrealist, or an underappreciated Jazz performer. To the committed readers of Kaufman – and almost all of his readers seem to be committed ones – it’s unforgivable. These various canons, major (mid-century American poets, Beat poets) and minor (Jazz poets, American Surrealists), are clearly missing one of their …

Outside A Binary System, The Brighter Object Is A Dream, Luisa A. Igloria

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Forum Magazine, Fall 2019

Forum Magazine

No abstract provided.

Los Inicios Del Género Detectivesco En España Y Sus Antecedentes Anglo-Americanos: Una Antología Bilingüe, Enrique Torner

MSU Authors Collection

A bilingual anthology of detective writing in Spain and the UK/US, with a preliminary study by Enrique Torner.

This work was originally first available online through the World Association of International Studies at https://waisworld.org/en/wais/publications/books.

Notes On Rome, Sarah Hurley

Honors College Theses

No abstract provided.

"The Names Of Sickness": Emily Dickinson, Diagnostic Reading, And Articulating Disability, Vivian Delchamps

English and Creative Writing | Faculty Scholarship

Emily Dickinson’s “There is a Languor of the Life” hints at her knowledge 1 about diagnostic and surgical approaches to bodymind pain during her time. Although the poem can be read as a metaphorical portrayal of spiritual suffering, it also demonstrates Dickinson’s familiarity with contemporary medical innovations as well as her skillful use of simile to poetically depict complex bodily states. For example, the poem describes a “languor” that envelops consciousness with a “Drowsiness” that “diffuses – / a Dimness like a Fog,” evoking literal sensations one might feel while under the influence of anesthesia.2 The poem goes on to …

Los Angeles Miscellany Volume 67, 2019, Loyola Marymount University English Department

LA Miscellany

Faculty Advisor: Chuck Rosenthal

Editor-in-Chief: Rainey Lynch & André Enriquez

Durability Of Bone, Blake Lapin

CMC Senior Theses

Blake Lapin's senior thesis, Durability of Bone, is a five-part collection of poems written, edited, and compiled under the mentorship of Henri Cole. Themes include loss, love, travel, disability, and home.

The Sentiment, Alexander Thomas

Phase 1

The Sentiment is a work of prose poetry that crystallizes my understanding of fluid identity and the interrelation of all existences. It synthesizes my personal experiences with the words and actions of the many teachers who came before me, and serves as an existential reminder of the unique and universal nature of all things. This is a perception that has only grown through the writing of the work, and one which deeply affects my relationships with others. It is, in large part, my motivation for becoming a doctor. I see each suffering as my suffering, and each joy as my …

‘Bloodwood’ And ‘Liminal Spaces, Timeless Places: Abjection, Liminality And Landscape In Australian Gothic Fiction’, Karleah Olson

Theses : Honours

This creative honours project comprises a work of fiction titled ‘Bloodwood’ and an accompanying exegetical essay, exploring the concept of liminal space within the Australian landscape. It investigates the anxieties and consequences of past trauma that linger within the landscape of modern Australia, exploring themes such as time, connection to nature, trauma and grief. Using Julia Kristeva’s abjection theory, particularly her ideas on liminal space, this work addresses the contentious issue of postcolonial theory within the field of literary studies, as well as the concept of grief as a liminal process. These ideas are explored through the storylines of three …

The State Of Dancingness: Staying With Leaving, Jo Pollitt

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Borrowing from Cixous’ ‘State of Drawingness’ (1993), this article proposes a ‘State of Dancingness’ as method of inhabiting the practice of writing as dancing. Understanding the dancing body as a place of virtuosic attention, the practice of writing is activated as a ‘continuation’ of dancing; neither as creative response or description but as frame for housing (staging) emergent content. The work proposes that the dancer begin on the page from the vantage and experience of entering the stage as solo improvising performer. These words come with this body tucked and pressing inside them. Pressing. The State of Dancingness …

Calliope, Georgia Southern University

Calliope Magazine

Volume 36

A Fiction Of Fragmented Falsehoods: Curriculum Of Unwanted Roads Traveled, Katherine Wyatt

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

This is an inquiry centered on lived ‘otherness’ in different social experiences. Fiction and illustrations are both creative outlets that provide opportunities of curriculum growth by offering the viewer realistic portrayals dealing with truth and factors that make us fundamentally human. “Fiction elicits an interpretation of the world by being itself a worldlike object for interpretation” (Dillard, 1988, p. 155). This study uses fiction and illustrations as vehicles of communication to provide an awareness regarding social issues in everyday lived experiences, exposing the reader to the social, cultural and historical realities persistently impeding the shared constructs of human experiences. Structuring …

Fall, Light, Jack B. Bedsell

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 72

The Unexploded Ordnance Bin, Rebecca Foust

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 117-118

Rememory, D C. Turner

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 242

Featured Poet: Toi Derricotte, Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 1-3

Why Aren't We More Marvelous?, Laura Didyk

Nelle (literary magazine)

pp. 92-93

Child's Play, Carrie Jerrell

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 163

A Crown Of Autopsies, D Gilson

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 121-126

Arson In Knockmullane: 24 December 1846, Julie Kane

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 164

Fox, Jane Satterfield

Nelle (literary magazine)

pp. 22-23

Self Care, Maria Thomas

Nelle (literary magazine)

pp. 8-19

Mother's Hitch, Karen Harryman

Nelle (literary magazine)

p. 39

Reasons To Destroy A Book, Corinna Mcclanahan Schroeder

Nelle (literary magazine)

p. 60

Mama's Hair, Melissa C. Johnson

Nelle (literary magazine)

p. 94

The White Cows Of The Cheviots: Chillingham Castle, Regan Good

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 127-128

O Tired Man We Climb The Ladder Slowly, Brandon Jordan Brown

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 87

The Child, William Wright

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 253-254