First Advisor

Paul Collins

Date of Award

Spring 6-2025

Document Type

Closed Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) in Creative Writing and University Honors

Department

English

Language

English

Subjects

Poetry, Ghosts, Grief, Addiction, Intergenerational trauma, Mental illness

DOI

10.15760/honors.1649

Abstract

A hybrid of poetry, prose, and fragment, this collection asks how intergenerational cycles of addiction and mental illness inhabit the somatic and spiritual realms. Haunted by literal and figurative ghosts, the work traverses themes of grief, inheritance, doubling, and the loss--and transformation--of self. This thesis seeks to transfigure personal narrative into a body that reaches towards a collective resonance through its engagement with memory, myth, and spectral presence.

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Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/43714

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