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Date of Award

Spring 2024

Document Type

Masters Thesis (Campus-Only Access)

Department or Program Affiliation

Creative Writing MFA

Degree Name

Master of Fine Arts (MFA)

Department

English

First Advisor

Heim, Stefania

Second Advisor

Miller, Brenda, 1959-

Third Advisor

Dietrich, Dawn Y., 1960-

Abstract

“Way Back Machine” is a poetry collection that explores digital archives of the self as they continue to decay. This collection pulls from the materiality of objects, dreams, digital relics, and memory. “Way Back Machine” is obsessed with rot poetics: where the long poem becomes a space for decomposition, and where virtual ways of storing information are subject to decay and loss. Woven throughout the collection is a narrative long poem, which hybridizes the manuscript in its fictionality and serves as a central collision of the eco-gothic and the digital. The poems in this collection are interconnected portals into the self, as if each poem is an archived webpage from the internet time machine. Images regurgitate, resurface, and become bugged. The machine churns; the self becomes bisected by broken hyperlinks.

Type

Text

Keywords

rot, wayback machine, poetry, dream, computer, archive, memory

Publisher

Western Washington University

OCLC Number

1439106021

Subject – LCSH

Internet--Poetry; Archives--Poetry; Dreams--Poetry; Memory--Poetry

Format

application/pdf

Genre/Form

masters theses

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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