Abstract
dc:description.abstractBodies Degraded by Friction is a collection of poetry existing in finite spaces. The first section, “A Moment and a Moment and a Moment," attempts to capture in words small passages of time as simple as clicking through a Facebook photo album and as destructive as new love. The second section, “It’s Complicated," is a manuscript in progress detailing a year in the life of an “other woman" negotiating an interpersonal relationship role underrepresented in self-help books and mass media. Several themes run throughout the book: the consequences of the use of technology-mediated communication as digital isolationist mechanisms, the collisions of real/virtual identity and real/virtual place, disruption as a poetic device, and the idea that love is a fleeting and ultimately impermanent state.
Degree
thesis:*- 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
- 2010
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Torres, Josette Annmarie
- Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
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- Hicok, Robert G.
- Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
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- Mann, Jeffrey A.
- Falco, Edward C.
Subjects
dc:subject × 6Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- In Copyright
- Licence dc:rights.uri
- Language dc:language.iso
- en_US
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Dc Identifier Other
- etd-04112010-232428
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/77491