When an aspen quakes: A collection of essays
Date of Graduation
2014
Document Type
MFA Creative Writing Thesis
Degree Type
MFA
College
Eberly College of Arts and Sciences
Department
English
Committee Chair
Kevin Oderman
Committee Co-Chair
Lara Farina
Committee Member
Mary Ann Samyn
Abstract
A collection of essays that explores relationships, cause and effect, spirituality, and acts of attention in the world through a memoir in several different structures. The essays in this collection strive to put ideas in conversation with one another, to create and illustrate the energy and life in any one thing by seeing it in relation to other things. In the Buddhist net of Indra, we are multi-faceted jewels--reflections of reflections of one another; there's nothing that has innate life separate from what it's in relation to. Relationship, connection, is what interests me most in life, and that is reflected throughout my writing.
Recommended Citation
Doverspike, Rebecca, "When an aspen quakes: A collection of essays" (2014). Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports. 5510.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/5510