Femininity

Overview "Heirlooms summons fragmented ancestral memory to illustrate the speaker's gendered relationships to land and place. In the first half of the collection, the speaker traverses a lineage of matriarchs and the delicate relationships between Puerto Rican women who survive displacement and diaspora. Through ritual and a multilingual incantation, the speaker honors the complexities of generational difference and struggle within an American setting. In the second half, the collection reflects upon...

Overview "This master thesis aims to portray the nature of human life in light of our modern capitalistic world. Ego has been running amok on Earth—via Human Consciousness—for a few thousand years, which has led to disconnection and destruction on all levels: human to human, human to fellow animal, human to Mother Earth. However, there is hope for harmony, for this planet and all of its creatures to return to a state of Heaven again. Across three sections, entitled (1) a long-drawn sidewalk, (2)...