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- Title
- Otway.
- Creator
- Hall, Sherry L., Mitchell, Susan, Florida Atlantic University
- Abstract/Description
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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.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000915
- Subject Headings
- Symbolism in literature, Self-perception, Poetry--Collections
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A Child's Prayer.
- Creator
- Bergkamp, Jill., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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A Child's Prayer is a Creative Work of 28 poems. This collection examines the relationship between religion and the familial, the habitual and the sublime. Through the reconfiguring of stories, often from a child's point of view, this collection seeks to question the past through the process of retelling it. Themes that are prevalent include memory, alienation, nourishment, and the sacramental. A Child's Prayer gently questions patriarchal religion and its multi-generational effects.
- Date Issued
- 2011
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3166836
- Subject Headings
- Symbolism in literature, Poetry (Collections), Conduct of life, Family, Religious aspects
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Questions for Animals.
- Creator
- Hamilton, Peggy, Mitchell, Susan, Florida Atlantic University
- Abstract/Description
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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.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000924
- Subject Headings
- Symbolism in literature, Sonnet--History and criticism, Poetry--Collections
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The Light That Calls Them Back.
- Creator
- Fedden, Victoria, Mitchell, Susan, Florida Atlantic University
- Abstract/Description
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"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.
Show less - 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
- Speak, Shade.
- Creator
- Gibson, Raymond, Scroggins, Mark, Florida Atlantic University
- Abstract/Description
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Speak, Shade is a book of lyric verse indebted to the poetics of W. S. Merwinespecially The Moving Target and The Lice- and late Paul Celan. It eschews punctuation, and uses paradox, ambiguous syntax, derangement of the senses, and surreal imagery among its tropes. Its themes include- but are not limited toblindness as a spiritual condition, the inefficacy of the imagination before time and death, the line between dream and reality, and the silence of God. Some motifs occurring in the text...
Show moreSpeak, Shade is a book of lyric verse indebted to the poetics of W. S. Merwinespecially The Moving Target and The Lice- and late Paul Celan. It eschews punctuation, and uses paradox, ambiguous syntax, derangement of the senses, and surreal imagery among its tropes. Its themes include- but are not limited toblindness as a spiritual condition, the inefficacy of the imagination before time and death, the line between dream and reality, and the silence of God. Some motifs occurring in the text are parts of the body, stars, books, light, mirrors, and shadows.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000919
- Subject Headings
- Symbolism in literature., Poetry--Collections., Versification., Merwin, W.S.--(William Stanley),--1927---Criticism and interpretation.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
