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ORCID

N/A

Document Type

Campus Access

Degree Program

English

Degree Type

Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)

Year Degree Awarded

2017

Month Degree Awarded

May

Keywords

logic, as, origin, thought, if, find

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7275/9940570

Abstract

If poetry is the act of looking twice, or again, at the world, then I propose that each looking, whether the first, the second, or the last, is done so as filtered by the mind, so that to look is actually an act of creation, a wedding between intention and observation.

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