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The Body Seeking Magnificence, Taylor Franson Thiel May 2023

The Body Seeking Magnificence, Taylor Franson Thiel

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This thesis focuses on how my time as a college athlete, my relationship with my mother, and my experience of an abusive relationship have intersected to impact my personal relationship with my body as I have fluctuated between trying to make it perfect, trying to ruin it, and trying to love it. The collection of poems examines how these forces collided in various ways to change how I thought about myself and my identity. After dealing with the idealized version of what a college athlete should look like and act like, inherited trauma from a mother, and trauma from a …


Theory Of Care, Gabriella Ann Graceffo Jan 2023

Theory Of Care, Gabriella Ann Graceffo

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

With a backdrop of the body and its inner forms, Theory of Care is a collection of poems and lyric excerpts that explores themes of queer sexuality, physical and mental health, etymology, desire, and physicality. It coheres moments of internal reckoning with an exploration of how trauma lives in the body, particularly the queer femme body. By accessing various landscapes including the medical sphere, family dynamics, and the social environments of the South, the collection grapples with different vernaculars to question how the language used to discuss (or dismiss) trauma dramatically alters the perception of those experiences.


My Body Is A Question Mark Lit From Within, Lisa Marie Schrad May 2022

My Body Is A Question Mark Lit From Within, Lisa Marie Schrad

Graduate Thesis Collection

In her MFA thesis “My Body Is a Question Mark Lit from Within,” Lisa Marie Schrad explores through poetry the body and its different appetites—hunger for justice, for healing, for God, for home, for wonder. Along the way, the poems also make clear that the path toward fullness and satisfaction must inevitably pass through a deep, brave commitment to knowing the full truth about ourselves. When a light shines out from inside the body, what shortcomings are exposed? What goodness is revealed? And how do we live in the world responsibly, kindly, from the space in-between our questions and their …


A Watering Can, Aria Watson Nov 2021

A Watering Can, Aria Watson

The Tuxedo Archives

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When It's Never Enough, Brittney La Noire Oct 2021

When It's Never Enough, Brittney La Noire

The Tuxedo Archives

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Fruits Of Our Labor, Diallo C. Weeks Mar 2021

Fruits Of Our Labor, Diallo C. Weeks

The Tuxedo Archives

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The Importance Of The Physical: Lucille Clifton's Poetry About Bodies, Kaitlin Hoelzer Jan 2020

The Importance Of The Physical: Lucille Clifton's Poetry About Bodies, Kaitlin Hoelzer

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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The Body Mends Itself, Hannah Elizabeth Dow Aug 2017

The Body Mends Itself, Hannah Elizabeth Dow

Dissertations

The following poems were completed by the author between September 2014 and April 2017.


Yggdrasill, Rob Crouch Jan 1992

Yggdrasill, Rob Crouch

Scope

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