Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p><em>Capital</em> is a collection of twenty-one poems that explore and contemplate the people, history, and &quot;place&quot; of Columbia, South Carolina. The poems range in form, from tanka and other brief impressionistic/imagist poems to lengthier &quot;jazz&quot; or prose poems, as well as in voice, from the melancholy &quot;On Our Parting&quot; to the playful &quot;Deliciously Racist.&quot; Thematically, the poems include meditations on death and longing, but also lighthearted commentaries on the indiscretions of local political leaders and the ambiguities/contradictions that arise from an openly racists restaurateur's barbecue being voted the best in town. The intent was to create a collection that simultaneously provides &quot;a sense of place&quot; while also portraying the complexity and subjectivity of that same place--a whole that is nonetheless very much fragmented and divided.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- MFA
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Campus Access Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English Language and Literatures
- Year dc:date.available
- 2009
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Cavanaugh, Darien
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Fred Dings
Subjects
dc:subject × 3Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- © 2009, Darien Cavanaugh
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/10
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholarcommons.sc.edu:etd-1011