Title
Sponsor
Portland State University. Department of English
First Advisor
Michele Glazer
Date of Publication
Fall 1-12-2018
Document Type
Closed Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) in Creative Writing
Department
English
Subjects
Grief -- Poetry
DOI
10.15760/etd.5963
Physical Description
1 online resource (iv, 74 pages)
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://doi.org/10.15760/etd.5963
Comments
This thesis is only available to students, faculty and staff at PSU.