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Full-Text Articles in Poetry
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
Sugarcane Crossroads, Sean Carrero
Sugarcane Crossroads, Sean Carrero
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The following manuscript is a collection of lyric poetry that touches on themes of family history, love, and labor in the service industry. It is divided into three sections. The speaker in the work dwells in mostly private spaces and deals with private symbols such as, water, to represent the father figure in the poems.
This To Which We've Come., Holly Tabor
This To Which We've Come., Holly Tabor
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection of works explores the linkages between moments, the connective thread that accumulates over time to create for each of us a unique present. The title, “This to Which We’ve Come,” attempts to convey that each moment is a point of arrival colored by the smallest of temporal fibers, our most interior histories that stretch and bend and fold back onto themselves when the present forces us into action, or inaction. Through these characters and their stories, I attempt to examine that moment of arrival. A secondary thread explored in this collection is the idea that humans are still …