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Date Permissions Signed

5-19-2022

Date of Award

Spring 2022

Document Type

Masters Thesis

Department or Program Affiliation

English

Degree Name

Master of Fine Arts (MFA)

Department

English

First Advisor

Shipley, Ely

Second Advisor

Paola, Suzanne

Third Advisor

Dietrich, Dawn Y., 1960-

Abstract

The following paper seeks to investigate the discipline, craft, and tradition of documentary poetics through the writer’s family and childhood home. Roland Barthes text, Camera Lucida, Catherine Gander’s text, Muriel Rukeyser and Documentary, along with essays like Phillip Metres’s “(More) News from Poems: Investigative/ Documentary/ Social Poetics On the Tenth Anniversary of the Publication of ‘From Reznikoff to Public Enemy’” are used to provide both framework for documentary poetics and insight into the writer’s poetry manuscript of lineage, intergenerational trauma, ghosts and haunting, and locality.

Type

Text

Keywords

docupoetics, erasure, ekphrasis, collage

Publisher

Western Washington University

OCLC Number

1320850876

Subjects – Names (LCNAF)

Barthes, Roland--Criticism and interpretation

Subject – LCSH

Documentary poetry--Authorship; Visual poetry--Authorship; Erasure poetry--Authorship; Ekphrasis

Format

application/pdf

Genre/Form

Academic theses; Visual poetry

Language

English

Rights

Copying of this document in whole or in part is allowable only for scholarly purposes. It is understood, however, that any copying or publication of this document for commercial purposes, or for financial gain, shall not be allowed without the author’s written permission.

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