Type

Text

Type

Thesis

Advisor

Sheehan, Julie | Reeves, Robert | Doty, Mark | Lux, Thomas.

Date

2012-12-01

Keywords

poetry | Fine arts

Department

Department of Creative Writing and Literature.

Language

en_US

Source

This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.

Identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/11401/77381

Publisher

The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.

Format

application/pdf

Abstract

A writer's journey. Many writers talk about the journey to create a work. They discuss where the work began, then took the writer, the places they have travelled in the time to create the work. During the course of this work I have travelled from the abstraction of experience to the concrete of realization. This book of poetry is the guidebook of those travels. It has the early stops into the terrible and great miserableness of tragic violence as well as the moments at rest as these moments are digested, quietly disturbing moments of emotionless behavior, the desire to recede, ebb in the face of the tide of realization that, yes, the disgusting has beauty and purpose. The terrible has meaning that transcends the simple nakedness of experience. To clothe it as a life sentence is to deny the possibility of humanness. Here it is the purpose of the metaphor, the exploration through description, the attempt to decriminalize the self, the innocent in the acts, to recover the human and humane in the speaker of these poems. In the intensity of these poems, the emotions run cold; the desire to forgive eases into the ring, the heat of hatred pulses at the heart all the while the speaker attempts to live a connected life in a world of his destruction, victimhood and desire for everything to change,58 pages

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