Date of Award

Summer 1994

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

English

Program/Concentration

English

Committee Director

Janet Sylvester

Committee Member

Charles Wilson

Call Number for Print

Special Collections; LD4331.E64C69

Abstract

An Ounce of Truth is a collection of poems. Subjects range from pregnancy, to growing-up Black in America, to dealing with death as a natural phenomenon. These poems, though filled with subjective experience and emotion, often intersect with objective economic and historical realities, thus forming strong political and social statements.

While most of the poems are written in free verse, which seems more appropriate to the subject matter, there are also more formal arrangements including the sestina "Talking Blues" and a concrete poem entitled "The Ninth Month."

The untitled poem by Nikki Giovanni is the unifying element of the thesis. Above all, the poems are an attempt to honestly present life as I see it, in all its splendor and horror.

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DOI

10.25777/7ycm-pv53

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