Dear Dear Dear

Dear Dear Dear is a collection of prose block poems that follow a queer speaker who is being confined by the world around him (the Midwest, the speaker's family/family values, gender norms, to one's own body, mortality, Monsanto, etc.) that tries to control and define him as a person. Dear Dear Dear examines the notion that humans are a product of one's own environment. It explores how one can be ones own product in response to being confined. Dear Dear Dear explores different themes such as 'Nightmares VS Reality', 'Confinement', 'Response to Being Confined', 'What is Home' seen in the collection. These themes intertwine with one another to create a loose narrative about a speaker actively trying to find a space where he can simply exist and call home without any fear of judgment from the world in which he inhabits.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Fine Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Creative Writing

Department dc:contributor.department

English

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Koch, Devin Harold

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Hicok, Robert G.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Meitner, Erika Sharon
• Mann, Jeffrey A.

• Poetry
• Queer
• Gay
• Midwest
• Religion
• Cancer
• Illness
• Nightmares
• Queerness
• Gender
• Sexuality
• Body

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Dc Identifier Other

vt_gsexam:20153

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/119027