Pterratactile

Abstract

We often consider poetry for its sounds and images, and yet our lives and poetic practice depend on somatic mediums for their production. What does it mean for poetry to be something you feel and hold as much as see and hear? My thesis considers the relationships between our senses and poetic mediums, through meditations on myth, spatial poetics, and tactility. Allowing the material demands of writing work and reword our language manifests a renewed dignity between our selves, each other, and the physical objects of language itself. The result is a collection of visual poetry, prose meditations, and letterpress prints transfixed by creatured desires for metamorphosis.