Date of Award
Spring 5-2021
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
English
Program/Concentration
Creative Writing
Committee Director
Luisa A. Igloria
Committee Member
Remica Bingham-Risher
Committee Member
Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley
Abstract
The emotional square footage required for any life’s accumulation of loss can be as difficult to manage as finding storage space for a hoard of physical souvenirs and heirlooms. This thesis has evolved as a type of inner-housekeeping, a spring clean anchored and organized by the trauma of suicide; not once, but twice, where such a deliberate exit is examined from a deliberately arial perspective. Here a speaker crawls into and pulls away from suffering to find clarity in a universal human experience.
Poet, Gregory Orr has written about loss as “the body of the beloved” where no one is spared. This thesis attempts to reconcile the imperfection of the collective “body of the beloved” and finds in it a way to love the world more deeply. Herein, I make an effort to integrate trauma and loss as tools that build an organic lifescape, providing function as well as ornamentation.
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DOI
10.25777/ywzq-7542
Recommended Citation
Rice Webber, Tracy E..
"Tools and Ornaments"
(2021). Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Thesis, English, Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/ywzq-7542
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/english_etds/146