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A Constellation In Training, Marko C. Capoferri
A Constellation In Training, Marko C. Capoferri
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Capoferri, Marko, M.F.A., Fall 2023 Creative Writing - Poetry
Light, Loneliness, and Location
Chairperson: Sean Hill
In many better-known works by the 20th century painter Edward Hopper, I find a locus of visual concerns that overlay the fixations of the majority—if not all—of the poems that comprise my thesis, what I like to think of as the three L’s: light, loneliness, and location (to which I could also add, as secondary colors, longing and landscape). Additionally, there are what Mark Strand identifies as “two imperatives” in Hopper’s work, “the one that urges us to continue and the other that …