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A Pint Of Dirt, Kristen Friesen
A Pint Of Dirt, Kristen Friesen
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This collection of poetry consists of 50 pieces focused on events and observations experienced by the author: a midwestern, middle-aged teacher, wife, and mother of three now-grown daughters. As much as it is an attempt to process and package the ordinary and unexplainable, it is also a study in metaphor, description, and the ways in which specificity of time and place can, hopefully, render a piece universal.
Advisor: Stacey Waite
Leaving Myself Behind, Shea Montgomery
Leaving Myself Behind, Shea Montgomery
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This work presents poems detailing different events of my life in an almost chronological order, while at the same time juxtaposing them against the backdrop of a life changing car accident I suffered through when I was 21. The events detailed within the poems reflect moments in my life that occurred either before or after this car accident, and I have arranged them in such a way that I hope will show my own struggles with masculinity while growing up, while at the same time realizing my own mortality by the end.
The poems contained within this work detail my …