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The poems in Dear Exorcist are derived from my own experience. The poems portray the struggle of working class individuals as well as my desire for self-actualization after recovering from physical, spiritual, and verbal abuse. As...
The poems in this thesis manuscript deal specifically and theoretically with the concept of finality, and echo influences as varied as Robert Haas, Harvey Shapiro, and Paul Auster. The poems investigate the many forms, structures, ...
The Gigolo Speaks in Tonguesis a collection of poems that chart an evolution of a self, consisting of coming-of-age poems that explore adolescent identity in the midst of religious fervor, paying homage to fanaticism, whether it be...
In The Lord is Easy to Please I hope to convey the intimate tension between the various speakers' sacrilegious thoughts and her loss and longing. Aesthetically, I consciously avoid imposing a bias toward faith or faithlessness and often...
Brett Kroska presents a collection of six stories, each set in the Pahatawa valley in North Dakota, a community known for its strange, isolated persons.
This thesis is a collection of short stories that explore characters undergoing a personal change and how it affects their lives and relationships. Each character struggles with a sense of ambivalence as well as a desire to control and...
The Shambling is a collection of poems that centers around the American cinematic image of the zombie, a creature brought back from the dead and bent on consuming the flesh of the living. Unlike the ghost who returns from the dead in...
Burning Down the Grief Motel is a collection of poems that combines explorations of a central speaker's personal grief, his transition into fatherhood, and his negotiations with identity in relation to landscape, folklore, local history, ...
I wrote this collection of poems from a fascination with both the Cosmos and the mythology that illustrates its elusiveness and integrity, its ability to accommodate the entirety of the Unknown as well as the already beloved. These poems...
Ranging from the elegiac to sarcastic, humorous to furious, distant, alienated, amused, and intimate, the poems in Hot Stare America aim to balance social critique with praise, protest poems with odes, the blues with jokes, nostalgia, ...
The following pages feature an atypical flavor of creative writing that merges contemporary poetry with the lyrical influence of spoken word. Each poem can be rewarding to simply read, but the lyricism is such that most of the pieces...
The Crow Child is a collection of lyric-narrative poems whose speakers investigate their ability to love, while exploring the complexities of various landscapes. Many of the poems take place in impoverished, rural, southern settings, ...
The poems in Former Queen of the Amazons comprise the speakers' garbled negotiation of the world around them and the clamoring voices they possess. Written within a matrix of culture, woman-hood, and persona, the poems holler with chaos, ...
Stay follows the journey of seventeen year old Carson Frugé--raised as a boy and besotted with her own father--as she runs away from home, works in a casino turned underground strip club, and shacks up with a petty drug dealer only to...
The poems in my thesis manuscript "Still the Girl" operate in a solar system of candy, social media and the American South. I use preconceived notions of pop culture, kitsch and cute to cut to the quick--nothing is quite as disarming as...
In Compassion for the Absurd, I hope to find transcendent moments in the ridiculous and mundane scenarios of various lives, some real, some imagined. In focusing on the ordinary, the poems pull the background of life into the foreground...
The poems in Dispatches from the Sex Doll Factory form a disjointed narrative, one that explores the displaced speaker's negotiation of the world around him. While the story is largely set in the Realdoll factory of San Marcos, ...
This collection of poems, The Lone Ranger Dines Again, is divided into three sections: "Million Dollar Wallpaper, a series of miscellaneous poems ranging in topic from a Colombian drug lord to instructions for playing baseball like a...
As artist John Aubrey approaches the end of his life at the Pineywoods Resort, a late-Victorian tuberculosis sanatorium, he makes one last grasp for an enduring legacy when he latches onto Salome, a young nurse who believes she is...
Instead of viewing the human self as an autonomous rational being, posthumanism understands the human as a material being shaped by a variety of physical, social, linguistic, political, economic, and historical forces; a material being...
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