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Title
Access Type
Campus Access
Document Type
thesis
Degree Program
English
Degree Type
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
Year Degree Awarded
2012
Month Degree Awarded
May
Keywords
illness, father, kid, mountain, zebra, general
Abstract
The following is a book of poetry, born of the chaos in leaving home and discovering loneliness within the confines of my own body. Sustaining a mixed vernacular, that of the rural Midwest, the Bible, medicine, and the strange, this book seeks a sympathy with illness and with those who suffer its symptoms. I drew much upon my childhood in particular the years spent going on rounds with my father at the local hospital.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/2717091
First Advisor
Dara Wier
Second Advisor
Peter Gizzi