Graduation Year

2005

Document Type

Thesis

Degree

M.A.

Degree Granting Department

English

Major Professor

Nicholas Samaras, Ph.D.

Committee Member

Peter Meinke, Ph.D.

Committee Member

James Reidel, M.F.A

Committee Member

John S. Hatcher, Ph.D.

Keywords

Philosophy, Poetics, Sicily, Suicide, Theatre

Abstract

These lyric poems were written between August 2003 and June 2005 and bear witness to the human condition in all its facets, from birth and the first taste of lemon ice to exile and suicide. Within a landscape that encompasses many locales, the poems included here attempt to portray the particular to denote the universal and are always confronted by the ineffable connection between the two.

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