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When Bird And Fish Fall In Love, Matthew C. Mackey Dec 2012

When Bird And Fish Fall In Love, Matthew C. Mackey

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

A work of poetry that offers a new method of poetics. By examining translation as a means of understanding relationships, this work offers a nuanced manner for the writing and experience of poetry. When Bird and Fish Fall in Love is a close examination of language, relationships, translation, and the intimacy of conflation.


Love Is Just A Word For The Last Body I'D Like To Keep Vigil Over, Robert Jagger May 2012

Love Is Just A Word For The Last Body I'D Like To Keep Vigil Over, Robert Jagger

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Love is Just a Word for the Last Body I'd Like to Keep Vigil Over is a collection of poetry that was composed during my time spent at UNLV. Comprised mostly of prose poems, it was heavily influenced by the works of Richard Hugo, Robert Coover, Joshua Marie Wilkinson and several French poets who are often categorized as being members of either the Symbolist or Decadent movement. At its best, the collection attempts to invoke a sense of Joseph Cornell's boxes--odd juxtapositions of everyday items and language that create new and uncertain circumstances. Unlike Cornell's boxes, however, the poems aren't …


Tongue Dares Verbosity, Liz Henry Feb 2012

Tongue Dares Verbosity, Liz Henry

SPECS journal of art and culture

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Lengua Osa Verba, Carmen Berenguer Feb 2012

Lengua Osa Verba, Carmen Berenguer

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Untitled, Liz Henry Feb 2012

Untitled, Liz Henry

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Gypsum In Nova Scotia, William Doreski Feb 2012

Gypsum In Nova Scotia, William Doreski

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Orbits, Bruce Covey Feb 2012

Orbits, Bruce Covey

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Motel Goose, Bruce Covey Feb 2012

Motel Goose, Bruce Covey

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Dust Bunny, Anne Pitkin Feb 2012

Dust Bunny, Anne Pitkin

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Dunes; That Day, Lynne Potts Feb 2012

Dunes; That Day, Lynne Potts

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Ogling, Lynne Potts Feb 2012

Ogling, Lynne Potts

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From The Hymnal, Robin Linn Feb 2012

From The Hymnal, Robin Linn

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The Story In Which You Are A Knife, Robert Walker Feb 2012

The Story In Which You Are A Knife, Robert Walker

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Salix Gooddingii (Goodding Willow), Wendy Burk Feb 2012

Salix Gooddingii (Goodding Willow), Wendy Burk

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Geography Is Destiny, N. A’Yara Stein Feb 2012

Geography Is Destiny, N. A’Yara Stein

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My Gallery, Jesse Glass Feb 2012

My Gallery, Jesse Glass

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Hands: A Text For Two Voices, Viola Da Gamba And Death, Jesse Glass Feb 2012

Hands: A Text For Two Voices, Viola Da Gamba And Death, Jesse Glass

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Seventeen : Resistance, Arlene Ang Feb 2012

Seventeen : Resistance, Arlene Ang

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Melody Sees Her Future, Star Coulbrooke Feb 2012

Melody Sees Her Future, Star Coulbrooke

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My Curator, Erin Hoover Feb 2012

My Curator, Erin Hoover

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Palindrome: A Sign Reads, “On This Site In 1897, Nothing Happened”, Nathaniel Taggart Feb 2012

Palindrome: A Sign Reads, “On This Site In 1897, Nothing Happened”, Nathaniel Taggart

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Meld, Nathaniel Taggart Feb 2012

Meld, Nathaniel Taggart

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Little Uninvited Mirrors, Natalie Young Feb 2012

Little Uninvited Mirrors, Natalie Young

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Woman Reclining On Plaza Bench, Miranda Merklein Feb 2012

Woman Reclining On Plaza Bench, Miranda Merklein

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Mnemonic Vices, Yolanda J. Franklin Feb 2012

Mnemonic Vices, Yolanda J. Franklin

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Mask-A-Scare, Yolanda J. Franklin Feb 2012

Mask-A-Scare, Yolanda J. Franklin

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Ecdysis, Ruth Polleys Feb 2012

Ecdysis, Ruth Polleys

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The Counselor Insists That Any Two People In A Relationship Have Inherent Cultural Differences That Make Getting Along Sometimes Next To Impossible, Janee J. Baugher Feb 2012

The Counselor Insists That Any Two People In A Relationship Have Inherent Cultural Differences That Make Getting Along Sometimes Next To Impossible, Janee J. Baugher

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Jan Fabre’S Asian Jewel Beetles, Janee J. Baugher Feb 2012

Jan Fabre’S Asian Jewel Beetles, Janee J. Baugher

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Blue Absence Of Space, Janee J. Baugher Feb 2012

Blue Absence Of Space, Janee J. Baugher

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