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American Thunder is a collection of narrative lyric poems broken into four sections according to thematic, tonal, and formal patterns and tied together as one manuscript by its speakers' concerns with community, violence, embodiment, ...
Woman by the Water and Other Stories is a collection of four short stories that range in setting from a touristy beach town in the Florida Gulf to a party school in northern Appalachia, and from old-fashioned Midwestern suburbia to a...
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 Kindness of Strangers, takes place in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and is composed of three books, each the narrative of one day, one January 10th -- date of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake -- in the lives of its characters. I examine the notions...
The lives and landscapes that exist within these poems serve as catalysts for reflections upon issues related to personal familial conflict, the attempt to construct a pragmatic, moral structure while struggling with the influence of...
In the following paragraphs I shall attempt to deliver a mini-poetics, or at the very least, try to clarify the main components of my thought process when writing these poems. This is dangerous territory. It's all too easy to employ...
The poems in this thesis manuscript, The Dirty Lover's Mausoleum, are intended to alternately confuse and enlighten the reader. They span a spectrum of emotions, from sadness to anger, and from depression to hope, never dwelling for too...
This collection of poetry explores the intersections between devotion and loss, anger and guilt, grief and hope. While some poems are buttressed by straightforward narratives, others are more impressionistic. The poems strive for...
This creative thesis is a collection of poems that tells the story of three queer women in the late-nineteenth century American Midwest and the various ways they withstood their dangerous position on the margins of society. The book is...
'Surviving Suburban Malls' is a collection of original poems that question expectations placed upon women in popular female consumerist culture. The collection is divided into three parts: the first section focuses on expectations placed...
The Paper Machine is a collection of narrative and contemplative poems whose speakers explore the significance of domestic relationships that shape everyday life. Works in this series of poems engage rural and urban southern settings in...
Contingency tells the story of Richard MacMurray, a political analyst and advocate for freedom of expression. On New Year's Day, Richard learns that his estranged sister has been killed in a plane crash, and that he will be asked to...
The Age of Strongmen is the opening excerpt of a novel in progress. The excerpt covers the opening four chapters and follows the parallel stories of two characters: Jules, the child of a poor woman and a delinquent father; and Sunra, ...
Backwards & Inside Out, a novel, tells the story of Albee, Karl and Emily Herman, a divorced and dysfunctional Jewish, each trying to individually rebuild their identities following the breakup of their family. Albee Herman, thirteen...
Astronaut is a collection of poems centered in the Florida Panhandle. Part trauma narrative, part ecocritical treatise, Astronaut continues the project of its author's first book, Romeo Bones, in attempting to give speech to the silenced.
The dissertation manuscript Beer League Outros is, among other things, an investigation of contemporary masculinity. Roused by uncertainty regarding gender roles in post-modernity, the poems elegize via arranging male attributes into a...
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...
A Man To Blame traces the story of a young woman, June Wells, returning to a family that is struggling to maintain a sense of normalcy after a devastating accusation. Ten years prior to the start of the novel, June's younger brother was...
Shimming the Glass House is a collection of poems, many of which address what the title suggests: an attempt to balance what is, by nature, fragile. Whether dealing with personal relationships, or mortality, or the quirky ways we try to...
My thesis 'Swamp Fire' began with the essay of the same name. After I wrote this essay, I decided to do a nonfiction thesis and began asking my family questions. I wanted to know about my parents' struggles, about how we ended up where...
This dissertation presents a novel that focuses on an immigrant family that struggles to understand the tragic death of one of their own. Thirty years ago, ten-year-old Mina Zand, the youngest child of Iranian immigrant, died, presumably...
Voices along the Road is a collection of poems that explores the immigrant experience, detailing three worlds that forge a Caribbean-American voice. All three sections of the manuscript examine an identity that comes directly, almost...
In Frank O'Hara's 'Personism: A Manifesto' he famously wrote, when discussing writing poetry, that 'you just go on your nerve.' I couldn't agree more. Nerve is the leading force of this collection of poems. They deal with an array of...
This dissertation is a collection of sixty-four pages of original poetry. The poems in this collection reflect the poet's interest in playing with language, invention, and a variety of approaches and forms. They are predominantly a...
This collection of poems considers ideas of place and culture alongside unusual, surprising portrayals of relationships to demonstrate the strangeness that characterizes our everyday lives.
When he suspects his dad of cheating on his mom, seventh grade bookworm Terry Jenkins uses his powers of detection to learn the truth--but it may be more than he can handle. After going through the lower grades of Saint Boniface as "that...
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 collection of poems, These Mouths, is an exploration of feminine identities and feminine experience. Many of the poems in this manuscript reference Catholic figures, myths, the speaker's struggles with their own faith and religious...
This manuscript is a novella entitled, After the Sun Fell, which traces the early lives of its two main characters, Shin Moon-Cha, a young Korean girl who meets, falls in love, and marries an American Soldier, Robert Asher, and moves...
Mia Carpenter has spent most of her adult life avoiding her father and resenting him for running out on their family when she was twelve. Now approaching her thirtieth birthday, Mia once again fears she's being left behind by a man she...
Kin is the story of a young girl who learns she can't depend on her parents--or anyone else--for stability. This piece follows her journey as she deals with one tragicomic event after another and, in the process, develops a thicker shell...
ABSTRACT This Heart Goes Bang Bang is broken into three sections, all of which explore classical references, much as poetry has done before, but in the context of my experiences and using a modern lens. I like a lot of things. In...
Monkey Chasing Blues is a novel in five parts, which tells the story of Harold Purple, an expatriate Mississippian living in Vermont and running a fortune cookie company on the brink of massive success. One careless mistake puts that...
The following is a novel in the form of a gospel, telling the story of religious fanaticism in the early years of the United Sates and the rebellions in West Florida in the year 1805 and 1810.
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, ...
The following is a novel in the form of a gospel, telling the story of religious fanaticism in the early years of the United Sates and the rebellions in West Florida in the year 1805 and 1810.
This dissertation novel is the result of a longstanding desire by the author to fictionalize an incident firmly embedded in her family lore concerning the immigration of her grandmother's parents to America, the tragic death of her great...
Some saints have poverty. Others, the ill or indigent. Evelyn Ellenberger has herself. This novel deals with themes of asceticism and sainthood as the main character, Evelyn, experiences mystic visions of St. Catherine of Siena and tries...
The Emperor of Shoes follows a long tradition of 20th century Jewish-American writers--Bellow, Roth, Paley and Olsen, to name a few--addressing issues of work and commerce in America. My novel, however, carries this tradition into the...
The poems in Like This may be grouped into the following categories: ' Poems in the voice of the author that explore the tension between the alluring stability of contemporary American suburbia and the high anxiety of a born second...
The poems in this thesis manuscript, The Dirty Lover's Mausoleum, are intended to alternately confuse and enlighten the reader. They span a spectrum of emotions, from sadness to anger, and from depression to hope, never dwelling for too...
Every day I find images that evoke deep connections in me. These images occur when I see a woman jogging, read a marquee, or overhear a conversation at the grocery store, the coffee house, or post office. When I write I try to make sense...
Like most teenagers, Morris fears divorce; he fears his parents won't get one. Morris hates his mother. Margaret dominates and dictates every aspect of her family's lives and Morris can't take it anymore. What's worse is his girlfriend's...
A quixotic scholar eating peanut butter on a spoon and translating Machaut's poetry is interrupted by a rumination on desire for love lost. This moment from "Fugue for Sexual Tension, Androgeny, and Wingmen in A Minor" is perhaps...
This novel attempts to marry the aesthetics of grit lit with the elements of noir crime-novels and -films. Set against the backdrop of one of our country's first Civil Rights demonstrations—the Biloxi beach wade-in, Easter 1959—this...
Relief, a novel, tells the story of Eric and Abigail Kees, who fall in love in the months after the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. Over the next decade Eric and Abigail marry, have a child, start a business, buy a second home and...
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