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Date Issued:
2005
Summary:
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 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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Name(s): Kluthe, Erika.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Mitchell, Susan, Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 2005
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 76 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: 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 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.
Identifier: 9780542137631 (isbn), 13253 (digitool), FADT13253 (IID), fau:10108 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2005.
Subject(s): Poems
Symbolism in literature
Held by: Florida Atlantic University Libraries
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