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Gender and Sexuality

University of Texas at El Paso

Poetry

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Happily Ever After And Other Lies My Childhood Told Me, Rachel Anna Neff Jan 2016

Happily Ever After And Other Lies My Childhood Told Me, Rachel Anna Neff

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A manuscript-length book of poetry with a critical preface centered on the idea of mythology, nursery rhymes, and foundational (Western) fictions and how the cultural norms and expectations that those texts create influence an individual, particularly with respect to gender and gender identity.


Tiger Shell, Christopher Sinnett Jan 2015

Tiger Shell, Christopher Sinnett

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Poetry is everything. A poem is a shell filled with a sliver of poetry. Life goes in, life comes out. These shells are filled with what we know, and deep inside, what we do not know. The ocean goes in and out. Art is in the shell. The poet enters, does not perform, does not act, does not do. The poet is.