Sponsor
Portland State University. Department of English
First Advisor
John Beer
Term of Graduation
Spring 2024
Date of Publication
7-17-2024
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) in Creative Writing
Department
English
Language
English
Subjects
crown shyness, inheritance, intergenerational, nebraska, poetry, queer
Physical Description
1 online resource (v, 83 pages)
Abstract
Crown Shy explores the ripple effects of inheritance--somatic, psychological, and material--and how such inheritance constellates into our adult relations and relating. In three parts, the text undermines nuclear family imaginings, first by pulling them out by the root, and later through radical practice, formal constraint, and syntactic ambiguity. By studying the natural world--the organizing principles of trees, insects, and flowers--Crown Shy attempts to glean strategy from evidence of what is already thriving. Reluctantly lyrical, the text quietly deplores the ramifications of commercial agriculture, including the speaker’s own family farm and ancestral homestead. With the weight of this origin point, Crown Shy treads warily into a present-tense relationship system which both pushes up against but also re-enacts former family systems, violence, and myth.
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Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/42428
Recommended Citation
Kincaid, Laura Francesca, "Crown Shy" (2024). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 6675.