Date of Award

Spring 2012

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Fine Arts (MFA)

Department

English

Program/Concentration

Creative Writing

Committee Director

Luisa A. Igloria

Committee Member

Timothy Seibles

Committee Member

Jennifer Fish

Call Number for Print

Special Collections; LD4331.E64 B87 2012

Abstract

There's a Reason One Thing Always Leads io Something More is a collection of poems that explore ideas of hunger from my own personal understanding of its metaphors as a white, American, feminist woman. This theme of desire branches out to show the body's dance with addiction, want and need, indulgence, and consumption, at odds with the need for limitations, portions, control, boundary, and responsibility to the self and community. The poems radiate from the body and attempt to speak from its collection of interconnected organs, and then use these images and metaphors to address social concerns, gender, sexuality, Americanism, conscious travel, service, race, class, love, and personal happiness. Finally, the collection is a growth; these poems are not only an autobiographical, fragmented memoir, but also a movement towards fullness. The collection is place for human connection to finally embrace its feast.

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DOI

10.25777/cb5y-xr92

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