Date of Award

Spring 2014

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

Remica Bingham-Risher

Call Number for Print

Special Collections; LD4331.E64 O36 2014

Abstract

Enclosed in this thesis is a collection of poems entitled Dictation From Chrysanthemums. Although the poems vary in scope and subject material. they convey unity: the unity that arises from the unknown, the unexplored, the undiscovered. To call the poems wholly "new" would be incorrect-after all they draw strongly on tradition as well as on the work of contemporary writers: Rimbaud, Yeats. John Ashbery. Philip Levine, Louise Gluck. To name all the influences would be impossible. but these are starting points. In addition. critical theory undergirds the project: everything from culture studies to theories of “hybridity" and "marginality." The end result is a hodgepodge of language and thought; aesthetic bliss and existential angst.

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DOI

10.25777/fxgb-2m48

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