Milutis, JoeBorsuk, AmaranthLauer, Chris Ryan2021-08-262021-08-262021-08-262021Lauer_washington_0250O_23244.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1773/47240Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2021La Fin du Monde, consists of a nonlinear preview of the content within my book of poems in progress, titled, La Fin du Monde. The work highlights my propensity to allow myself to be vulnerable, engage in self indulgence, and disappear into collectivity. My writing blends reference and meaning with texture & sound, it is preoccupied with its personal nature, which involves emotional aptitude, the materiality of language, and the experimentation of form, to eventually become a revelation of its own process. My objective is to create an intimate experience for the reader by incorporating a fusion of thoughts & ideas associated with my past, while simultaneously, expressing the modern environment in which I exist. My work romanticizes life, and employs a variety of its many themes in a cinematic capacity, such as, success, failure, romance, sex, conversation, the interior, film d’auteur, visual art, nature, geography, and gastronomy. There is a strong influence of certain philosophies, intellectual ideas, and poetic trends on display, such as, existentialism, radical empiricism, imagism, and romanticism. I develop the origins of each piece through stream of consciousness, lumps of language, and fragments of dialogue, with the intention of provoking attention by assembling stanzas that interact with one another, and that produce a lyrical vocality when coming off of one’s tongue. The arrangement of my writing is nonlinear & follows the aesthetic and process of constructivism, which for some, may seem paradoxical. Marjorie Perloff, a poet and professor, suggests in her book, 21st-Century Modernism, that “the truly valuable contributions modern poetry can make lie not in expression but in what she calls constructivism, a philosophy of composition in which language, far from being a vehicle or conduit for thoughts or feelings outside and prior to it, is itself the site of meaning-making” (Munson). The significance in meaning in my work lies within the nature of the process, and eventually reveals its true intentions.application/pdfen-USCC BY-NC-NDCreative writingInterdisciplinary arts and sciencesThesis