Matryoshka

Matryoshka is a poetry collection that inhabits the space between danger and desire. The poems are largely voice-driven and confessional, sprouting from a speaker who is somehow ruthlessly honest and deceptively evasive at the same time. She covets the domestic only to set it on fire. She runs for comfort and greets the comfortable with a knife. In the beginning of the collection, we see a speaker navigating her relationships with others. The poems in section one are seeped with intense longing and physical desire. In section two, we see the speaker turn her gaze inward and are met with a raw exploration of the self; a revelry of bad decision making, self-deception, and complicated sexuality. The collection leaves the reader curious and comfort-seeking.

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

• Cohen, Tali Sharon

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Hicok, Robert G.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Meitner, Erika Sharon
• Gardner, Thomas M.

• relationships
• addiction
• sobriety
• shame
• intimacy
• domestic life
• control
• illicit desire
• the female body
• self-negation
• spiders.

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Dc Identifier Other

vt_gsexam:20145

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/120570