American poetry -- 21st century

This collection of poems explores the subjects of photography, relationships, fables, and gender issues. It ranges in style from formal verse to narrative prose, and reflects the idea that humor is one of the best tools for understanding and appreciating

A collection of poetry wrought, imagined and built from the four elements and concerned with places, people, love, sex, and death. Included are translations of four of Pablo Neruda's odes. This thesis is a culmination of the poet's ongoing project to skil

Mother Tongue is a collection of poems exploring themes of place, family, music, and relationships. It contains several examples of mixed forms, as well as two translations from the French of Rosemonde Gerard. -- abstract.

Mr. Box presents a variety of realities: writer and glass artisan, death and life, reality and make-believe. -- abstract.

These poems enact a tension - the conflict between a need to escape a narrow but unstable, often violent world, and the need to stay and make sense of it. -- abstract.

I like to think of my project as 'effacing the I,' though some first-person speaker poems are included. I intend these poems to be more rhythmic than not, and generally more lyrical than narrative. Topically, I am interested in heritages--from familial, t

These plot-driven lyric poems concerning love, death, and family are separated into three different sections corresponding with (I) childhood and adolescence, (II) young adulthood, and (III) relative maturity. -- abstract.

The poems in Nothing, Arizona explore the themes of solitude, identity, curiosity and understanding. The collection pays attention to what is left out -- the unsaid -- and attempts to show that the use of blank space can be as powerful as what is spoken a

This poetry collection explores the processes of loss, acceptance and recovery. --Abstract.

"Objects in the Mirror is a testament to imagination and the potential it has to decode and influence our reality. Each poem involves a retreat to our mental laboratories and libraries, in order to understand the world in a better way, and grow closer to the forces that compel us." --Abstract.

"Forms in this collection include longer narrative poems, shorter more image driven poems, and persona poems. Many of the poems explore issues of domesticity and motherhood, while others are in conversation with a variety of writers or artists including Jack Gilbert, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Mary Rowlandson, and Mary Cassatt." --Abstract.

On Either Ocean is an extended valentine composed of three sections of lyric poems. They generally take place in Los Angeles, California; Omaha, Nebraska; or Boston, Massachusetts. At times they veer into the surreal. -- abstract.

One stone at a time is a collection of poems exploring the themes of loss, family relationships, and the imagination at play. Fanciful or realistic, fictional or autobiographical, each poem represents a step in the progression of the author's experience o

Based on both autobiography and archival research, this collection explores the tension between the desire for rootedness and the reality of impermanence. Mostly set in rural Vermont, the first section explores family and romantic relationships and is fol

Paper Gun attempts to explore the problems that result when one is simultaneously trying to adhere to and rebel against the rules of one's family, religion, and society. Much like the poet herself, the collection tries to strike a balance between indulgen

This collection of poems addresses issues such as questions that can't be answered, silences, dreams, metamorphoses, memory and time. It also includes translations of A Dream" by Gerard de Nerval and the first part of the "The Voyage" by Charles Baudelair

A poetry collection comprised of a fourteen short pieces, a lyric series contemporizing characters from Hamlet, and the eponymous long narrative poem.

The poems in this collection, constructed through a blend of narrative and lyric, focus on a variety of themes including: family, feminine sexuality, grief and loss, mythology, the outside world as reflected through the subconscious, and--as the title sug