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Title: Bittersweet Desire.
Creator: Freilich, Eric W., Florida Atlantic University, Mitchell, Susan
Abstract/Description: It is my hope that readers of Bittersweet Desire join the narrator on his quest for romantic satisfaction. By putting a cynical twist on romantic movements and techniques, I feel readers will have an easier time identifying with the speaker presented in this manner. The speaker's cynicism is a result of losing the one he believed he loved and who he also believed loved him. This leads him to question his situation. The poems mirror his quest to define love and find someone to fit his new...
Show moreIt is my hope that readers of Bittersweet Desire join the narrator on his quest for romantic satisfaction. By putting a cynical twist on romantic movements and techniques, I feel readers will have an easier time identifying with the speaker presented in this manner. The speaker's cynicism is a result of losing the one he believed he loved and who he also believed loved him. This leads him to question his situation. The poems mirror his quest to define love and find someone to fit his new definition.
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Date Issued: 2004
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13104
Subject Headings: Cynicism in literature.
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Title: Behind Dasheen Leaves.
Creator: Morgan, Shauna Melissa., Florida Atlantic University, Mitchell, Susan
Abstract/Description: Behind Dasheen Leaves is a collection of poems that is challenged by the resonance of the Caribbean post-colonial voice. It is a challenge that this collection brazenly battles, as it avoids exoticizing the work, while it submerges the reader in cultural representations. The poems are manifestations of religious syncretism, multiculturalism, and feminist ideas. Behind Dasheen Leaves affects the reader by depicting the products of colonialism while evoking human emotions and experiences. The...
Show moreBehind Dasheen Leaves is a collection of poems that is challenged by the resonance of the Caribbean post-colonial voice. It is a challenge that this collection brazenly battles, as it avoids exoticizing the work, while it submerges the reader in cultural representations. The poems are manifestations of religious syncretism, multiculturalism, and feminist ideas. Behind Dasheen Leaves affects the reader by depicting the products of colonialism while evoking human emotions and experiences. The characters in this collection experience loss, and they struggle with the inability to define self in a society of miscegenation and assimilation. The syncretistic nature of the poems and the lives of the speakers within the poems force the reader to define self in respect to religion, culture, and other societal components evident in the work. Behind Dasheen Leaves normalizes the universe (for its characters, readers, and of course for its writer) as it serves as an emotional, linguistic, and vivid retention of what can no longer be described as lost heritage or history.
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Date Issued: 2002
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12907
Subject Headings: Poetry, Syncretism (Religion)
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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: 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: Otway.
Creator: Hall, Sherry L., Mitchell, Susan, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: Otway is a verse collection that explores the journey of the self in isolation. The collection commences with the narrator's inability to make sense of involuntary isolation. The subsequent melancholia prompts the narrator's journey of self-exploration, which progresses outward into the natural world. This journey is signified through the narrator's travels, which bring her into direct contact with the numinous (nature). Consequently, both narrator and numen become integrated, leading to the...
Show moreOtway is a verse collection that explores the journey of the self in isolation. The collection commences with the narrator's inability to make sense of involuntary isolation. The subsequent melancholia prompts the narrator's journey of self-exploration, which progresses outward into the natural world. This journey is signified through the narrator's travels, which bring her into direct contact with the numinous (nature). Consequently, both narrator and numen become integrated, leading to the transformation of solitude as "undesirable" space into "sacred" space, one in which self-discovery can occur.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000915
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature, Self-perception, Poetry--Collections
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Questions for Animals.
Creator: Hamilton, Peggy, Mitchell, Susan, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: Through the worlds of cause and effect, forms, and formlessness, echoing the structure of the shrine Borobudur, this work explores these convergences: Paul Oppenheimer's argument that the best origin of sonnet is sonitus, the music of the spheres perceived in this world as a deafening; the experience of Borobudur 's rectangular stone reliefs within a structure that looks angular but is circular; and a deaf woman's observation that vowel sounds conflate on faces under the duress of pleasure or...
Show moreThrough the worlds of cause and effect, forms, and formlessness, echoing the structure of the shrine Borobudur, this work explores these convergences: Paul Oppenheimer's argument that the best origin of sonnet is sonitus, the music of the spheres perceived in this world as a deafening; the experience of Borobudur 's rectangular stone reliefs within a structure that looks angular but is circular; and a deaf woman's observation that vowel sounds conflate on faces under the duress of pleasure or pain. The attempt, as the sonnet moves through the volume, interrupted four times by poems of other types, is to experience what seems, like stone or path, a most syllogistic of forms, as mandala. Throughout, the relationship between sight and sound is explored, using homophones, syntax working with and against parts of speech and lineation, hearkening to words that keep as unresolved as possible the vowel sounds, as brogues do, and tonal languages.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000924
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature, Sonnet--History and criticism, Poetry--Collections
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Title: Festine Lente.
Creator: O'Daly, Barbara Hosie, Mitchell, Susan, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: The creative idea of this thesis did not start with a definitive theme. Instead, an appreciation of the modern Irish poets inspired the process. A creative endeavor has translated a bricolage of unconscious memories into a dream like flow of language. The visualization of dreams and the exploration of language measured in words, has become my muse. I like to let language shape itself from a visual realization inside the creative process and to whittle through words to breathe life into the...
Show moreThe creative idea of this thesis did not start with a definitive theme. Instead, an appreciation of the modern Irish poets inspired the process. A creative endeavor has translated a bricolage of unconscious memories into a dream like flow of language. The visualization of dreams and the exploration of language measured in words, has become my muse. I like to let language shape itself from a visual realization inside the creative process and to whittle through words to breathe life into the asynchronous sound of dreams. Most of this reconstruction is drawn from dormant memories. The journey has allowed me to dig down as if in an archeological site (of the mind) and use language in arbitrary words that come to express a subjective meaning. Transposing this to a more objective meaning will often result in an analytic conclusion. These conclusions are personal observations stemming from the root of the first flash of memory. The title suggests movement in a slow pattern that is often the way dreams occur. The result makes the journey that more imperative to reach a conclusion. At moments there is a repetition of the words, and that is what gives the bricolage substance if not theme. The journey has offered me a personal gift of time to slow down and grasp the essence of life. It is my hope that the reader will join my metaphorical caravan to find a dig of one's own in this creative language.
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Date Issued: 2007
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000943
Subject Headings: Irish poetry--Criticism and interpretation, English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching, Creative writing (Higher education)
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: Jorie Graham and Alice Fulton: Mavericks of excess.
Creator: Elko, Heather A., Florida Atlantic University, Mitchell, Susan
Abstract/Description: Jorie Graham and Alice Fulton's poetries are distinguished by their styles of maximalist excess. They depict the superabundance of the world, including fragmentary contemporary culture, scientific phenomena, and the mind in its process of apprehending. Both poets use idiosyncratic non-verbal devices to account for variables and unworded concepts. Graham's style is verbally and linearly expansive, resisting closure in its long circumlocutions. She weaves contraries and complements into a...
Show moreJorie Graham and Alice Fulton's poetries are distinguished by their styles of maximalist excess. They depict the superabundance of the world, including fragmentary contemporary culture, scientific phenomena, and the mind in its process of apprehending. Both poets use idiosyncratic non-verbal devices to account for variables and unworded concepts. Graham's style is verbally and linearly expansive, resisting closure in its long circumlocutions. She weaves contraries and complements into a seamless whole that incorporates loose threads, "failures," and multiple subjectivities. Fulton's style is compressive, embedding heterogeneous subjects and exposing paradox linguistically and by means of satire. She employs wide ranges of diction and alludes to and parodies other written and spoken genres.
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Date Issued: 1997
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15376
Subject Headings: Graham, Jorie,--1951---Criticism and interpretation., Fulton, Alice--Criticism and interpretation., Language and languages--Style., Poetry--Themes, motives.
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Title: Style as theme: Robert Hass's poetry and his search for the void.
Creator: Trammell, Michael., Florida Atlantic University, Mitchell, Susan
Abstract/Description: Robert Hass's poems address the emptiness found between the word and what it signifies, between imagination and experience, and between language and reality. In Field Guide, his first book of poetry, he discovers this void as he focuses on the power of words and names. In his next book, Praise, he directly explores the emptiness and how it reveals the word as elegy to what it represents. In Human Wishes, his third book of poetry, he redefines imagination, reality, and the ubiquitous emptiness...
Show moreRobert Hass's poems address the emptiness found between the word and what it signifies, between imagination and experience, and between language and reality. In Field Guide, his first book of poetry, he discovers this void as he focuses on the power of words and names. In his next book, Praise, he directly explores the emptiness and how it reveals the word as elegy to what it represents. In Human Wishes, his third book of poetry, he redefines imagination, reality, and the ubiquitous emptiness through a process of simplification that uses common nouns and plainer intentions. His desire to constantly address this theme of emptiness throughout his poetry has led to a style of writing that continuously upends the reader's expectations.
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Date Issued: 1990
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14587
Subject Headings: Hass, Robert
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Title: The Light That Calls Them Back.
Creator: Fedden, Victoria, Mitchell, Susan, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: "The Light That Calls Them Back" is a collection of 23 poems completed during my three years of graduate studies. The poems in this collection are memory based and rely on the use of metaphor to convey emotion. These writings were compiled to demonstrate a range of poetic styles and subject matter. Most importantly, each poem in some way deals with the poet's relationship to different places and the memories (often hazy or inaccurate) associated with certain settings. Additional themes...
Show more"The Light That Calls Them Back" is a collection of 23 poems completed during my three years of graduate studies. The poems in this collection are memory based and rely on the use of metaphor to convey emotion. These writings were compiled to demonstrate a range of poetic styles and subject matter. Most importantly, each poem in some way deals with the poet's relationship to different places and the memories (often hazy or inaccurate) associated with certain settings. Additional themes present throughout these works are the loss that comes with both death and abandonment and the relationship among visual art and images and poetry. The voice in these poems represents the poet in different stages of life. Many of the poems appear to deal with mystical or fantastical elements. These represent the poet's imagination and belief in the unexplained. Some are meant to be taken literally, while others become metaphors or evidence of the poet's desire to escape the ordinary world.
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Date Issued: 2009
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000914
Subject Headings: Poetry--Collections., Symbolism in literature., Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.), Poetry--Themes, motives.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: RESIDUE: WORLDS THAT INHABIT US.
Creator: Binnings, Corrine, Mitchell, Susan, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: As humans, we walk through this world hauling remnants of all our individual and collective experiences. We are composites of the things we have seen, been through, the things that have touched our lives and marked us permanently. We are, ourselves, residues of the things that shape the worlds we inhabit and the worlds that inhabit us. On a collective level, people of the Caribbean, particularly those of African descent, are residues of a colonial past that was fraught with violence on every...
Show moreAs humans, we walk through this world hauling remnants of all our individual and collective experiences. We are composites of the things we have seen, been through, the things that have touched our lives and marked us permanently. We are, ourselves, residues of the things that shape the worlds we inhabit and the worlds that inhabit us. On a collective level, people of the Caribbean, particularly those of African descent, are residues of a colonial past that was fraught with violence on every level and a successive local legislature that continues to perpetuate much of the exploitative practices of colonialism. On a personal or individual level, most of us have suffered injury to our psyche and to our bodies that have rendered us what we are today. We are, in a sense, residue (what-lefts) hauling residue, carrying the twin load of what Paula Morgan describes in her book, The Terror and the Time, as “violence and trauma induced by the outworking of [historical and] structural inequalities” along with dust we accrue in our personal walk through this world (2). And whether we admit it or not, the lives we now live, the relationships we sustain or fail to sustain, and the lives we impact are touched by the residue of experiences we carry with us into those spheres.
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Date Issued: 2019
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013356
Subject Headings: Poetry, Caribbean Americans
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Title: LATE AFTERNOON AND FIVE UNSPOKEN STORIES.
Creator: Almonte, Mauricio J., Mitchell, Susan, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: The thesis consists of a novella and five short stories, all narrated from the perspective of a mute diasporic narrator who chronicles several returns to a nameless Caribbean village. Against a rich intertextual backdrop, these texts predominantly explore issues of mutism, the relationship between language and a sense of place, intricacies of translation, and the orality-literacy spectrum.
Date Issued: 2021
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013729
Subject Headings: Short story, Novellas
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S POEMS.
Creator: Marcum, Margaret, Mitchell, Susan, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: “Midsummer Night’s Poems”—as the thesis’ title suggests—is based on Shakespeare’s play, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” The thesis’ poems reflect a very dream-like state of progression, starting with overall harmony in terms of relationships and followed by the consequences resulting from immature love’s fickle nature. The poems, however, are not meant to be read as grave or humorless even though their tone is sometimes overdramatized. The poems’ tone is lighthearted, while engaging the...
Show more“Midsummer Night’s Poems”—as the thesis’ title suggests—is based on Shakespeare’s play, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” The thesis’ poems reflect a very dream-like state of progression, starting with overall harmony in terms of relationships and followed by the consequences resulting from immature love’s fickle nature. The poems, however, are not meant to be read as grave or humorless even though their tone is sometimes overdramatized. The poems’ tone is lighthearted, while engaging the suffering of love’s hardships. It keeps the reader’s perspective comparable to Bottom’s. The thesis’ message is that we should not take ourselves so seriously. Finally, the thesis’ poems act as a mirror to Shakespeare’s play since common themes emerge in both. In sum, the thesis’ tone shadows the lightheartedness of the play’s and yet conveys that while “The course of true love never did run smooth,” true love always finds a way to bring us peace.
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Date Issued: 2022
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013955
Subject Headings: Creative writing, Poetry
Format: Document (PDF)

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