Abstract
dc:description.abstractGreen Burial is a collection of original poems that comprises three interrelated sections. The first section, titled “The Trash Heap,” utilizes the image of the landfill as a metaphor for the accumulation of harmful substances that humans consciously and unconsciously allow to enter their bodies. The main themes in the section are bodily illness and fragility, decay, and environmental crisis. The second section, titled “Body Doubles,” explores how people project themselves into mediated worlds, particularly cinematic ones, in order to correct or qualify their personal and social insecurities. This section argues that such projection is necessarily ineffectual and violent. The final section, titled “The Pursuit of Sorrow,” focuses on a relationship defined by codependency and alcohol abuse. Taken as a whole, this collection of poems demonstrates the reciprocal nature of environmental (nonhuman) and personal (human) devastation.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English
- Grantor dc:publisher
- University of Kansas
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2020
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Graf, Derek
- Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
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- Kaminski, Megan
Subjects
dc:subject × 4Rights
- Language dc:language.iso
- en
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Dc Identifier Other
- https://www.proquest.com/LegacyDocView/DISSNUM/28257647
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/37697