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Date Permissions Signed

5-5-2021

Date of Award

Spring 2021

Document Type

Masters Thesis (Campus-Only Access)

Department or Program Affiliation

English Department: MFA Creative Writing

Degree Name

Master of Fine Arts (MFA)

Department

English

First Advisor

Beasley, Bruce, 1958-

Second Advisor

Wong, Jane

Third Advisor

Vulic, Kathryn R., 1972-

Abstract

“To Rip // Time” is a poetry/hybrid collection that focuses on memory, family, mental and physical illness, and time as its major themes. It utilizes fragmentation, altered photographs, repetition, and unique forms or grammar structures to interrogate these themes, musing on the relationships between memory, pain, illness, imagery, and language. It attempts to represent the physical and emotional space of traumatic memories, investigating specifically those places where memory is fallible, falters, is malleable, or is shaped by emotion or trauma, and attempts to represent this mutability through its formal choices.

Type

Text

Keywords

memory, family, fragmentation, trauma, mental health, mental illness, Alzheimer's, visual poetry, hybrid poetry

Publisher

Western Washington University

OCLC Number

1250391160

Subject – LCSH

Poetry--Collections; Visual poetry; Memory in literature; Families in literature; Time in literature; Alzheimer's disease

Format

application/pdf

Genre/Form

masters theses

Language

English

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