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What Is Known: Prose Pieces
(2013-07-25)
Five chapters of a novel-in-progress (titled "What Is Known"); one essay (titled "And Yet"); and one short story (titled "A Satisfying View").
Crossing the Border
(2013-07-25)
A collection of linked stories feature Americans abroad as they set forth on backpacking journey through Central America, serving at a teaching post in rural South Korea, and trekking in the mountains in Morocco. These characters struggle with the unique relationship between travelers, as well as the intimate connection ...
Poetic Dehiscence: Readings at the ‘Upper Limit’
This essay uses Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s concept of phenomenological ‘deshiscence’ to perform readings of poems that happen at or around Zukofsky’s ‘upper limit.’ ‘Dehiscence,’ for Merleau-Ponty, describes an interface of subjective and objective modes of experience; in the essay I explore some of the ways in which poems enact ...
"She Should Have Brought A Book To Read": Contemporary Approaches to Ekphrasis
What does ekphrasis look like in contemporary English-language poetry? Can poems that explicitly mention a work of art but do not employ detailed description as a means to achieve enargeia still be considered ekphrastic? If description is not the primary focus of an ekphrastic poem, how does the poem make the work of art ...
The Purple Vest
(2013-07-25)
Pages 1-44: Poetry written for creative thesis. The Purple Vest. Pages 45-69: Critical essay examining some metaphysical techniques in Elizabeth Bishop's poetry. The conversational technique in poetry, and the expression of the act of the mind, can be found in contemporary metaphysical poetry such as that of Bishop's.
MFA Creative Thesis
This creative thesis project includes three main sections, "Curious Incidents in Underwater Research," What to Expect When You're Not Expecting, and Modern Yarns. The first is a mystery story, the second a series of stories that ask questions about parenting, and the third a collection of brief stories within the structure ...
"Have you the little chest—to put the alive—in?:” Riddles, Secrets, Spells
Focusing on the minor genre of the riddle, this project analyzes potential intersections between magic, metaphor, and the poetic impulse. Emily Dickinson and Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s works are drawn upon, as are various threads from folklore, Western philosophy, and anthropology.
The Abstract of the Creative Writing Capstone Project
This Creative Writing Capstone Project investigates themes of place, memory, the body, and their respective relationship(s) to language. The poems range from short lyric pieces to longer, multi-sectioned meditations. Formalistically experimental, these works seek to actualize pace and breath through language and use of the ...
The Abstract of the Creative Writing Capstone Project
An exploration and critique of aleatoric approaches in the creative process, using language experiments as an umbrella term to explore & discuss chance operations, Oulipo techniques, Surrealist exercises and Charles Bernstein’s 66 experiments, which are heavily borrowed from Bernadette Mayer's processes. This research examines ...
The Thirteenth Labor and Other Stories
University of Washington Abstract The Thirteenth Labor and Other Stories Tyler Scowcroft Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Maya Sonenberg English, Creative Writing