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Title: Outline.
Creator: Kluthe, Erika., Florida Atlantic University, Mitchell, Susan
Abstract/Description: The poems belonging to this collection are descriptive and largely image-driven. Focusing on moments of ecstasy, and written in a fragmented and highly tactile language, these poems re-present experience as a visual and aural texture or surface, one that is rough and raised: a mosaic that is sensually, emotionally, and sexually urgent that my reader might run his or her hands and ears over; I want the experience for both speaker and reader to feel that immediate. The final poem or arrangement...
Show moreThe poems belonging to this collection are descriptive and largely image-driven. Focusing on moments of ecstasy, and written in a fragmented and highly tactile language, these poems re-present experience as a visual and aural texture or surface, one that is rough and raised: a mosaic that is sensually, emotionally, and sexually urgent that my reader might run his or her hands and ears over; I want the experience for both speaker and reader to feel that immediate. The final poem or arrangement of images is suggestive and ambiguous in order to create a sense of engagement with the mysterious, strange, terrific, tumultuous, uncertain, severe, and divine: all that comprises the ecstatic. Inherent in the ecstatic (or in states of ecstasy) are the possibilities for renewed, enlightened vision, transcendence, and transformation. These poems approach various moments that suggest the possibilities for such and present-to the reader---as the title suggests---an outline offering the general features of a given subject or emotion, encouraging the reader to fill in (or feel in) the details of the experience.
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Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13253
Subject Headings: Poems, Symbolism in literature
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Latitudes.
Creator: Slone, Jay., Florida Atlantic University, Mitchell, Susan
Abstract/Description: The poems of this collection attempt to bridge and break interpretive and formal borders. The speaker's voice is sometimes cohesive, sometimes fragmented. The title alludes to images in the poems: to the sea, the stars, storms, and of navigations not so much of specific places, but of motion or directions that are often tenuously connected or abstract. These poems are explorations, wonderings, and experiments. The speaker's voice shifts like the wind, sometimes leading toward a destination...
Show moreThe poems of this collection attempt to bridge and break interpretive and formal borders. The speaker's voice is sometimes cohesive, sometimes fragmented. The title alludes to images in the poems: to the sea, the stars, storms, and of navigations not so much of specific places, but of motion or directions that are often tenuously connected or abstract. These poems are explorations, wonderings, and experiments. The speaker's voice shifts like the wind, sometimes leading toward a destination and other times remaining lost. The poems require navigation as the reader is called upon to engage in the process of finding the way---of making way---and participating with the poet in the process of meaning making.
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Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13237
Subject Headings: Poems, Symbolism in literature
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Letters for Burning.
Creator: Precanico, Joseph Dante, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: This creative thesis is a collection of poems and lyric forms that explore queer identity and difference through the fraught navigation of heteronormative spaces and institutions such as the American school system, the Catholic Church, and marriage. Included are letters-as-poems, journal fragments, and extended lyrical sequences that serve to highlight the significance of community and chosen family to queer identity. When they aren’t addressed to an imagined recipient, they are dedicated to...
Show moreThis creative thesis is a collection of poems and lyric forms that explore queer identity and difference through the fraught navigation of heteronormative spaces and institutions such as the American school system, the Catholic Church, and marriage. Included are letters-as-poems, journal fragments, and extended lyrical sequences that serve to highlight the significance of community and chosen family to queer identity. When they aren’t addressed to an imagined recipient, they are dedicated to or in conversation with friends, family, lovers, strangers, past selves, and other writers. Although the three sections (LETTERS, FIRE, and HEARTH) that demarcate this work chart a thematic chronology that organizes stages of a queer life, memory isn’t cleanly linear. Poems pour into and echo each other, signifying embodied history in the present and the past’s bearings on queer (re)imaginings of the future.
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Date Issued: 2023
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014152
Subject Headings: Creative writing, Poems
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Book Where Every Poem is a Spoke on a Wheel of the Party Wagon.
Creator: Winn, Eileen, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: Book Where Every Poem is a Spoke on a Wheel of the Party Wagon is a collection of poems that experiment with formal poetic structures to challenge abusive familial and religious structures, repurposing faithful sensibility to empower an irreverent speaker. Poems in this collection rewrite prayers, revise the outcomes of familial estrangement, and recollect history in order to reclaim the author’s queer American childhood, adulthood, and Catholic faith traditions.
Date Issued: 2022
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013904
Subject Headings: Poems, Creative writing
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Hot Pink.
Creator: Pifer, Lee E., Florida Atlantic University, Mitchell, Susan
Abstract/Description: The poems of this thesis take the reader to primal places of the mind, body, and soul, often considered better left unspoken or unseen. These places are no doubt dark and full of strange dreams. Here, relationships have a lack of resolution and, of course, are engineered by pleasure and pain. Pain is fire, ice, or reflection. Pleasure is also pain. It is all an eternal dance. Pain gives pleasure meaning and vice versa, like violence and passion. There is a pleasure in the heat rising from a...
Show moreThe poems of this thesis take the reader to primal places of the mind, body, and soul, often considered better left unspoken or unseen. These places are no doubt dark and full of strange dreams. Here, relationships have a lack of resolution and, of course, are engineered by pleasure and pain. Pain is fire, ice, or reflection. Pleasure is also pain. It is all an eternal dance. Pain gives pleasure meaning and vice versa, like violence and passion. There is a pleasure in the heat rising from a red bottom, and a beauty in that image. I challenge social customs and emotional aversions with my imagery. I utilize rhyme and a lack of punctuation to disturb boundaries as dreams do, or other malleable states of living. I focus on the intangible trauma of self-destruction in the pursuit of creativity, intimacy, and expression. In simpler terms, the poems of this thesis have been caught having a threesome with sex and death. Tempted to peek?
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Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13278
Subject Headings: Poems, Symbolism in literature, Conduct of life
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: residue.
Creator: Carlson, Susan L., Florida Atlantic University, Scroggins, Mark
Abstract/Description: This creative thesis contains 19 poems exploring and examining the association of residues, primarily through that of memory and memories, through a process of defining and (re)defining those associations of memory (the residues) that attach themselves to memory and the actions of and upon memory. This thematic thread is woven throughout with narrative prose and verse, traditional and free verse, and the melding of each in an effort to exemplify the relationships between memory and its...
Show moreThis creative thesis contains 19 poems exploring and examining the association of residues, primarily through that of memory and memories, through a process of defining and (re)defining those associations of memory (the residues) that attach themselves to memory and the actions of and upon memory. This thematic thread is woven throughout with narrative prose and verse, traditional and free verse, and the melding of each in an effort to exemplify the relationships between memory and its residual associations through structure, form, and language. Speakers are most often characters who represent the roles of memory and the associate value of the residues attached to it. The notion of residue is defined and redefined through the formation of memories, cultural associations, environmental and educational influences.
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Date Issued: 2006
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13339
Subject Headings: Poems, Symbolism in literature, Memory--Miscellanea
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Like Salt for Bread.
Creator: Genis, Jeanne, Scroggins, Mark, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: Like Salt for Bread is a sixteen poem creative thesis that explores the razorwire balance of power and vulnerability. In some poems, the relationship seems clearly defined by an aggressor or catalyst that threatens emotional and sometimes physical violence. In the others, the balance shifts from the speaker to another, alternates between one speaker and another, or even alters within the speaker's consciousness. Regardless, each poem examines a moment that is not a measure of time but a force...
Show moreLike Salt for Bread is a sixteen poem creative thesis that explores the razorwire balance of power and vulnerability. In some poems, the relationship seems clearly defined by an aggressor or catalyst that threatens emotional and sometimes physical violence. In the others, the balance shifts from the speaker to another, alternates between one speaker and another, or even alters within the speaker's consciousness. Regardless, each poem examines a moment that is not a measure of time but a force that tends toward rotation- changes that occur around the axes of authority and control. The resulting torque exposes assumptions about long-standing myths, personal and popular.
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Date Issued: 2007
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000918
Subject Headings: Poems., Symbolism in literature., Power (Psychology), Control (Psychology)
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Pro(bl)em: The paradox of genre in the literary renovation of the Spanish American poema en prosa.
Creator: Giannini, Natalia Rita., Florida Atlantic University, Gosser Esquilin, Mary Ann
Abstract/Description: The poema en prosa originates in the Romantic subversion of discursive boundaries, as a problematic genre that foregrounds its theoretical self-questioning. Through its confrontation of prose and poetry, and the paradoxical affirmation of a form that results from the dialogic struggle between them, the poema en prosa is able to create an alternative space for Spanish American writers conditioned by a colonial history of literary borrowings from other traditions. This counter-discursive entity...
Show moreThe poema en prosa originates in the Romantic subversion of discursive boundaries, as a problematic genre that foregrounds its theoretical self-questioning. Through its confrontation of prose and poetry, and the paradoxical affirmation of a form that results from the dialogic struggle between them, the poema en prosa is able to create an alternative space for Spanish American writers conditioned by a colonial history of literary borrowings from other traditions. This counter-discursive entity attracted turn-of-the-century modernistas such as Julian del Casal and Ruben Dario, as did the prose experiments of Jose Marti Delineating an autochthonous discursive identity for Spanish America through Romantic ideology, Marti anticipates the renovating social and aesthetic ideals of the poema en prosa. His search for a paradoxically original Spanish American expression helps establish the theoretical parameters for later modernistas and postmodernistas, who resort to the poema en prosa as an ambiguous means of creative autonomy.
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Date Issued: 1998
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15575
Subject Headings: Prose poems, Spanish American., Modernism (Literature)--Latin America., Poets, Spanish American.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The naming man: A study of Wallace Stevens's poetry titles.
Creator: Weinschenk, George Godfrey, III., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: The titles of Wallace Stevens's poetry assist in an explication of the poems. Stevens's titling techniques force the reader into a complicit involvement with the text before the commitment to read is even made. By asserting a strong presence in his titles, Stevens is able to engage the reader in an exploration of what is possible for the imagination. He presents his poetry as a foil for the actualization of his audience. Potentials are experienced and made real by this active involvement with...
Show moreThe titles of Wallace Stevens's poetry assist in an explication of the poems. Stevens's titling techniques force the reader into a complicit involvement with the text before the commitment to read is even made. By asserting a strong presence in his titles, Stevens is able to engage the reader in an exploration of what is possible for the imagination. He presents his poetry as a foil for the actualization of his audience. Potentials are experienced and made real by this active involvement with the poems, which in turn permits them to reveal their hidden meanings. A recursive responsiveness to Stevens's titles during the enjoyment of his poems rewards the reader with some answers to Wallace Stevens's masterful mystery. His management of titles is a part of the syntactical expression that is central to a full experience of his poetry.
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Date Issued: 1997
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15402
Subject Headings: Stevens, Wallace,--1879-1955--Criticism and interpretation, Titles of poems, Poetics
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Poemes sur la religion naturelle, et sur la destruction de Lisbonne par M. de Voltaire.
Creator: Voltaire 1694-1778
Abstract/Description: Title vignette; head- and tail pieces, initials.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwflb17f29
Subject Headings: Lisbon Earthquake, Portugal, 1755 -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800, Natural theology -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800, Voltaire 1694-1778 Poème au Roi de Prusse, Voltaire 1694-1778 Poème sur la loi naturelle
Format: E-book

Title: A dissertation in answer to a late lecture on the political state of America : read in New-Haven, January 12th, 1789, during the adjourned sessions of the honorable legislature : to which is added, a short poem spoken at the same time.
Creator: Hillhouse, William 1757-1833, Thomas and Samuel Green (Firm)
Abstract/Description: by William Hillhouse, Jun. Esq., attorney at law. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴ (C4 verso blank). FAU Libraries' copy appears to have been trimmed to 20 cm.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb8f5
Subject Headings: Poems -- 1789, United States -- History -- Constitutional period, 1789-1809 -- Sources -- Early works to 1800, United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1789 -- Early works to 1800
Format: E-book

Title: Our obligations to defend the government of our country : a discourse on the war by Rev. Elias Nason, delivered at Exeter, N.H., April 21, 1861.
Creator: Nason, Elias 1811-1887
Abstract/Description: Includes verse. Caption title. FAU copy edges trimmed to 21 cm.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb19f2
Subject Headings: American Civil War (1861-1865), United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sermons, Sermons, American -- 19th century, Bible -- Luke, XII, 48 -- Sermons, Poems, Poetry
Format: E-book

Title: The goodly heritage of Jerseymen : the first annual address before the New Jersey Historical Society, at their meeting, in Trenton, on Thursday, January 15, 1846.
Creator: Doane, George Washington 1799-1859, Alexander, James W. (James Waddel) 1804-1859 Jersey homestead
Abstract/Description: By the Right Rev. George Washington Doane, D.D., LL.D, Bishop of New Jersey. Second edition. Cover title: Bishop Doane's historical address. Notes: Dedicated to Joseph C. Hornblower. Contains the poem "The Jersey homestead" by Rev. J.W. Alexander, pages 31-32. Includes bibliographical references.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb14f8
Subject Headings: New Jersey -- History -- Sources, New Jersey -- Social conditions, New Jersey -- Social life and customs, Poems -- 1846, Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century, Hornblower, Joseph C. (Joseph Coerten) 1777-1864, Morris, Edmund 1804-1874, New Jersey Historical Society
Format: E-book

Title: The truly great : a discourse, appropriate to the life and character of John Quincy Adams by E.H. Chapin.
Creator: Chapin, E. H. (Edwin Hubbell) 1814-1880, A. Tompkins, 38 Cornhill,
Abstract/Description: Discourse, appropriate to the life and character of John Quincy Adams. Includes verse. Issued in blue printed wrappers with title page forme machined on front wrapper within double-ruled border. FAU copy imperfect, lacks wrappers; edges trimed to 22 cm.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb14f14
Subject Headings: Adams, John Quincy -- 1767-1848, Presidents -- United States -- Biography -- Sermons, Memorials -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- 19th century, Bible -- Samuel, 2nd, III, 38 -- Sermons, Poems -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- 19th century, Sermons, American -- 19th century
Format: E-book

Title: The free Christian state and the present struggle : an address delivered before the Association of the alumni of Bowdoin college.
Creator: Prentiss, George Lewis 1816-1903, Bidwell, W. H. (Walter Hilliard) 1798-1881
Abstract/Description: "August 8, 1861." "John A. Gray, Printer, Stereotyper, and Binder"--Front cover. Includes verse. Includes bibliographical references. FAU copy has original printed wrappers; side stitched with cord.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb19f18
Subject Headings: Christianity -- United States, Constitutional history -- United States, Liberty, Poems, Poetry, Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865, United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865, War -- Moral and ethical aspects
Format: E-book

Title: The Union : an address by the Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson, delivered before the Literary Societies of Amherst College, July 10th, 1861.
Creator: Dickinson, Daniel S. (Daniel Stevens) 1800-1866, James G. Gregory
Abstract/Description: Cover title. Includes verse. In printed wrappers, with advertisements including on back cover a list of 10 "War publications" in which The Union is listed as number 2.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb19f28
Subject Headings: Secession -- United States, Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century, Poems, Poetry, Politics and government, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865, United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865
Format: E-book

Title: Relief for East Tennessee : meeting at Cooper institute, Thursday evening, March 10, 1864.
Creator: Taylor, N. G. (Nathaniel Green) 1819-1887, William C. Bryant & Co.
Abstract/Description: Includes verse. Prefaced by a speech by Gen. Walbridge. Also published as no. 73 of the pamphlets of the Loyal Publication Society. FAU Libraries' copy has original printed wrappers; side stitched with cord.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb21f31
Subject Headings: American Civil War (1861-1865), Tennessee, East -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865, Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States, Poetry, Poems, Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century, Tennessee -- Economic conditions
Format: E-book

Title: The test oath and jury trial-- The law and the gospel!.
Creator: Cox, Samuel Sullivan 1824-1889
Abstract/Description: Law and the gospel! Speech of Honorable S.S. Cox. Notes: Cover title. Includes verse.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb23f49
Subject Headings: Congressional addresses -- 1879, Jury -- United States -- History, Law -- United States -- History -- Sources, Law and gospel, Oaths, Poems, Poetry, Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Format: E-book

Title: Two tone poems.
Creator: Rivera, Raul., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Music
Abstract/Description: The two orchestral pieces, written in the period of 2009-2010, are tone poems that demonstrate the development and combination of tonal melodies along with a coherent and effective use of orchestration to express different emotions inspired by two imaginary places. This thesis analyzes different aspects of the pieces based on their melodic construction and the use of the orchestra as the main instrument. This document also discusses the influence of specific composers and orchestral pieces,...
Show moreThe two orchestral pieces, written in the period of 2009-2010, are tone poems that demonstrate the development and combination of tonal melodies along with a coherent and effective use of orchestration to express different emotions inspired by two imaginary places. This thesis analyzes different aspects of the pieces based on their melodic construction and the use of the orchestra as the main instrument. This document also discusses the influence of specific composers and orchestral pieces, and the main historical style of the compositions.
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Date Issued: 2010
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2138105
Subject Headings: Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Symphonic poems, Criticism and interpretation, Variations (Orchestra), Orchestra music
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: An oration, delivered at the request of the young men of Salem, July 4, 1831.
Creator: Phillips, Stephen C. (Stephen Clarendon) 1801-1857, Palfray, Warwick 1787-1838
Abstract/Description: By S.C. Phillips. Cover title: Mr. Phillips's oration, delivered at the request of the young men of Salem, July 4, 1831. "Appendix."--Page [33]-40. Contains a "sketch of the proceedings," including two anthems, a hymn, and an "Ode--written by Edwin Jocelyn, Esq." FAU copy inscribed: Edward E. Law Esq., with the best respects of his friend [...] S.C. Phillips.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb11f8
Subject Headings: Fourth of July addresses -- 1831, Fourth of July celebrations -- Massachusetts -- Salem, Fourth of July orations -- 19th century, Liberty, Massachusetts -- Salem, Poems -- 1831, Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century, United States -- History, United States -- Politics and government
Format: E-book

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