Sue

<p><em>Sue </em>is a collection of poetry investigating the cyclical nature of grief through the lens of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s schemas of paranoid and reparative readings. The poems employ motifs such as hunting, disease, and human remains to capture the temporal disorientation experienced in the wake of loss. Via an extensive use of metaphor and recurring poem titles, <em>Sue </em>exploits the multivalence of language to conjure a dense field of meaning, meant to capture the undecidability of language noted by philosopher Jacques Derrida. This collection also employs several vectors of derivation, including erasure of text lifted from the 2002 strategy video game <em>Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade </em>and a sequence of responses to Suzanne Vega’s 1990 album <em>Days of Open Hand</em> in the ekphrastic spirit. Thus, <em>Sue </em>is intended to contribute to and deepen the meaning of these other pieces of art while also forwarding its own unique perspectives on grief, language, and formal play.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Fine Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year dc:date.available

2023

Author dc:creator

• Wooten, Heath Joseph

Contributors dc:contributor

• Matthew Gavin Frank

• poetry
• grief
• erasure
• experimental
• lyric
• surreal

Repository record dc:identifier

https://commons.nmu.edu/theses/740

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:commons.nmu.edu:theses-1785