PDXScholar

Title

b o y

Author

Consuelo Wise, Portland State University

Sponsor

Portland State University. Department of English

Advisor

Michele Glazer

Date of Award

1-12-2018

Document Type

Closed Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) in Creative Writing

Department

Creative Writing

Physical Description

1 online resource (iv, 74 pages)

DOI

10.15760/etd.5963

Abstract

b o y is an extended lyric poem/essay that uses repetition, fragment, and syntax to continually build a form that continually falls apart. The poem is both a meditation and an investigation into loss, and into the relationship of loss to identity, with making a poem, and with holding on to something.

What does mourning look like and how does it change as it accrues? How is mourning inherited? This work does not claim release; it reenvisions or argues against narratives that insist that the end of great loss is to "let go," "set free" or "rest."

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/23431

Recommended Citation

Wise, Consuelo, "b o y" (2018). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 4079.
https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4079
10.15760/etd.5963