Date of Graduation

2024

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Type

MFA

College

Eberly College of Arts and Sciences

Department

English

Committee Chair

Mary Ann Samyn

Committee Member

Jenny Johnson

Committee Member

Michael Germana

Abstract

The poems in this collection range in style and content, as they branch out into aesthetic genre-defying & traditional forms. The poems question the nature of the self, identity, social & religious constraints, trauma & healing, and political atrocities. The speaker uses Hieroglyphics as a vehicle that follows a trajectory of transcorporeal personas, moving through time and space, juxtaposing life & death, faith & disbelief, trauma & resilience, shame & pride, anger & humor, belonging & wanderlust, and, eventually, beauty & grotesqueness. Ancient Egyptian mythology & art, visual poems, and multiple artworks occupy a significant space in this book, igniting the imagination, and inviting the eye to travel across the page, yet breaking its artificial limitations, building for the self a place to inhabit, a body to embrace, and colors translated into vivid, poignant experiences of the human person.

Embargo Reason

Permanent Embargo – MFA Creative Writing

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