Date of Award
Spring 2012
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
English
Program/Concentration
Creative Writing
Committee Director
Luisa Igloria
Committee Member
Tim Seibles
Committee Member
Farideh Goldin
Call Number for Print
Special Collections; LD4331.E64 B66 2012
Abstract
This collection explores the idea of familiarizing the strange, reacquainting oneself with wonder, and how the use of humor can create evocative poetry. The collection aims to use humor as a mechanism to deal with subject matter such as family relationships, loneliness, alienation and death. Linear and circular narrative were used to create poems that act as smaller stories that come together to create a timeline of stories arranged from birth, to mid-life, to death.
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DOI
10.25777/51t3-sv02
Recommended Citation
Bonner, Emily L..
"The Stories Teeth Can Tell"
(2012). Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Thesis, English, Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/51t3-sv02
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/english_etds/227