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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 Else are lyric explorations of paradox. Specifically, they meditate on the idea that what gives comfort also has the potential to cause great harm. The central focus of the collection is a troubled relationship, but regional...
The following is a collection of poems written between 2003 and 2005. Many of the longer poems leap from place to place and image to image very quickly, much like the mind itself. Oftentimes a casual, conversational voice is utilized to...
For me, there has always been a wolf at the edge of the woods, watching and waiting. My sister often cried wolf, trying to shape reality into words that fit her emotional desperation. The rest of my family simply agreed not to speak of...
The Cutting Room Floor explores the life of Frankenstein's monster, as narrated by the creature himself. True to Mary Shelley's original book, the monster has no name but recognizes that he is often mistakenly called 'Frankenstein, '...
The poems in The Pale Cinema of Color and Broken Conversation emerge from the writer's perception of the glorious illogic of his own life. More than from a traditional canon of literature, these poems derive their form and style from, as...
Of the Out of Style takes its title from Jimi Hendrix's afrofuturist proto-prog rock masterpiece "1983…(A Merman I Should Turn to Be)." As a collection the poems, as Hendrix puts it in song, take a last look / at the killing noise / of...
These poems explore what it is to be desirable, whether sexually, culturally, or otherwise. In questioning desire, its manifestations and triggers, these poems attempt to complicate the readers' understanding of love and loss in...
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, ...
Look at My Sky is a collection of poems that expresses the value of living, the need we have to be heard, loved and understood. These pictures on the inside walls of a moment evoke emotion, celebrate the human spirit, and give voice to...
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...
In the Crumbling Blacksmith Shop of My Father's Ear is a collection of poems dealing with loss and hope. Detroit is the backdrop for many of the poems in the first half of the book, however the second half focuses on family and...
This manuscript is the culmination of my earliest work. Many of these poems are lyric narratives and 'confessional' although what part of writing does not simultaneously reveal and conceal at the same time? Influences include Sylvia...
I always preferred fried chicken over hamburgers or hotdogs when I was a kid. And though that seems like a terrible way to begin an abstract about poetry, I have to admit that it sums up most of what I have learned about it. Poetry has...
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