Abstract
dc:description.abstractBindweed and Fire is a collection of poems in three sections. The first two sections, Drought and Watermarks, contain short metrical lyrics built around images of fire and water. Sabbath, the third section is a long free-verse poetic sequence in three voices. In ekphrastic poems rich with private symbolism, the first voice attempts to refract through the prism of visual art the relationship between a father and son. Providing a counterpoint to the first, the second voice seeks to qualify, correct, and comment on the private symbolism. The third voice tries to give a wider view of the everyday lives of parent and child, their habits, their history, and the tensions at play between them.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- M.F.A. in Creative Writing
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English
- Year dc:date.available
- 2012
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Davis, Joshua Lee
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Ann Fisher-Wirth
- Gary Short
- Mary Hayes
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/1004
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:egrove.olemiss.edu:etd-2003