American poetry -- 21st century

The subject matter of these poems is a primarily urban landscape and the people who inhabit that landscape.

These poems travel into the landscape of the self through the physical terrain that shapes experience, memory and imagination".

This is a collection of primarily lyric poems that examine personal relationships, often through photographic and cinematic metaphors. -- abstract.

A Shape For Light is a collection of lyric poetry exploring interior space and experience in relation to the physical world and language. The sections reflect the speaker's use of place to define the personal, observation and its interaction with visual a

This collection explores themes of work and rural poverty in Maine, placing them beside current events and lyric explorations of self. The poems included use a wide array of strategies from a variety of traditions in poetry, including free" verse and pros

Sometimes dark, sometimes funny, the poems in Above Ground Burials range from memories of New Orleans pre-Katrina to surreal adventures in dreams.--Abstract.

This sequence of poems works to embody the collective memory of African Americans living post reconstruction. The collection moves from the present to the recent and distant history, from the North and West back to the deep South. --Abstract.

The poems in All Night Barbecue attempt to find moments of empathy, pleasure, and humor within segments of society that are traditionally considered outsiders. Most of the speakers/characters find a semblance of belonging, if only for a moment, within the

With a particular focus on feminine identity and place, Always, Ditto examines interactions between people and landscape, and the influences of what is both within and out of our control. This collection of both formal and free verse poems travels to the

This is a collection of primarily lyric poems that examine relationships, often between the self and an unseen idea or un- force of some kind. -- abstract.

Bone tattoo is a collection of poems exploring history, war, family and loss. The poems are mostly narrative though some are more abstract. The speaker often takes on the role of the observer, whether it be through the eyes of a bar patron, a child or Con

This collection explores narratives of family and place. The voice of the speaker matures as the manuscript progresses, beginning in the voice of a child and ending with that of an uncertain adult. Though some poems are formal, the collection is mainly co

An examination of the basic factors that make up the lives we lead. Separated into four distinct but interconnected parts, this thesis is written for anyone who has ever loved or needed human contact, experienced death or seen or felt something strange, o

The poems in this collection mediatate on the fact that what we don't know about the universe is, inevitably, greater than we know. -- abstract.

This collection of poems has as its goal the transcending of individual emotion into universality of feeling; this resonances is what has always drawn me to poetry. -- abstract.

This manuscript is a culmination of my poetry during my time as a Master of Fine Arts student at Emerson College. The death and loss of loved ones, relationships and family is a theme consistent throughout this collection. My earlier poems tend to have a

Columbia Road is a collection of narrative poems, many about place. They weave a conceptual trail between the writer's roots in western Pennsylvania to her life in storied South Boston, a crucible of social controversy and struggle. -- abstract.

Collection of original poems and select translations that match the theme and tone of the overall work.--Abstract.

The poems in 'Convenient Amnesia' deal with the will and perseverance of human nature. In three sections, this collection discusses race, political and cultural commentary, relationships, love and loss. -- abstract.