Semester
Spring
Date of Graduation
2019
Document Type
MFA Creative Writing Thesis
Degree Type
MFA
College
Eberly College of Arts and Sciences
Department
English
Committee Chair
Mary Ann Samyn
Committee Co-Chair
Jenny Johnson
Committee Member
Jenny Johnson
Committee Member
Geoffrey Hilsabeck
Abstract
Gevalt, or And Then the Strings Come In engages with history, particularly as it relates to the descendants of Holocaust survivors living in the United States in the twenty-first century, while exploring the feelings of guilt and shame that accompany such a lineage. These explorations take the form of elegies, prayers, direct addresses, while informing poems with less explicit connections to that subject matter in their at-times vigilant, awestruck, and fearful ways of observing the world. In doing so, they seek to make sense of the senseless, and to pick up history’s rubble and create with it something new and beautiful, while never forgetting what brought them to their present moment, and what it means to exist in that moment at all.
Recommended Citation
Block, Jacob C., "Gevalt, or And Then the Strings Come In" (2019). Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports. 3824.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/3824
Embargo Reason
Permanent Embargo – MFA Creative Writing