Title
Date of Award
Spring 2020
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
English
Program/Concentration
Creative Writing
Committee Director
Luisa Igloria
Committee Member
Ben Kingsley
Committee Member
Drew Lopenzina
Abstract
The Open Heart Furnace is a manuscript of poems about my family history and my own coming of age. It toggles between my Polish grandparents’ and great-grandparents’ survival of WWII and my own life of privilege in the USA. In each poem, I attempt to uncover and illuminate a story or feeling that could otherwise remain invisible or forgotten. I hope that the poems in this collection serve as portals that beam readers to different moments in time and space.
DOI
10.25777/zn4s-hm06
Recommended Citation
Jacobson, David.
"The Open Heart Furnace"
(2020). Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Thesis, English, Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/zn4s-hm06
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/english_etds/135