Phrases Of The Moon

Abstract

Phrases Of The Moon is a collections of prose-poems, parables, riddles, aphorisms, and short stories linked together to form a web of creative mystery and revelation. Kafka, Borges, Mallarmé, and Nabokov are some of the writers that have influenced the theoretical underpinning and authorial design of this thesis. The riddles and parables deal the process of giving key information while simultaneously withholding that same information. The poetics gravitates around the mysterious process of writing and seeks to extrapolate a sensible explanation of writing as a means of mystification and method of solution to the interior life. The short stories explore the enigmatic states of the soul and seek to transcend--through imaginative creativity--crude moral, romantic, and intellectual explications of the literary form they are restricted to. Phrases Of The Moon is a collection of creative writings that hold mystery in common.