Sponsor
Portland State University. Department of English
First Advisor
Michele Glazer
Date of Publication
Spring 7-11-2018
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) in Creative Writing
Department
English
Language
English
Subjects
Grief -- Poetry
DOI
10.15760/etd.6368
Physical Description
1 online resource (v, 50 pages)
Abstract
The poems that comprise Murmuration are an act of vigilance in the face of loss. At certain moments in the distorted timeline of grief one searches the remaining world around them for signs of the beloved, signs that they are not simply gone but instead transformed or dispersed into another way of being. In this looking one's relationship to the external world undergoes a radical transformation of its own and demands a sustained attention from the bereaved that often draws from, but ultimately outruns cataloguing acts of memory. These poems attempt to render the movements of that attention as it learns to track a body made formless. These are moments of a consciousness dispersed in language as it follows the undulations, ambiguities, absences, presences, and transformations of form after death. Here, the speaker of these poems listens and watches for the languages of the transformed in whatever form they take; an attempt to listen to the murmur and eventually to learn to murmur back.
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Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/26027
Recommended Citation
Dillenbeck, Braeden, "Murmuration" (2018). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 4484.
https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.6368