Abstract
dc:description.abstractA collection of poems, Still, asks and attempts to answer the questions: how does memory function; how do we grieve; and what is time? The poems contend that the one consistent quality of memory is that it is never static; instead, "it comes in waves like nausea," and that this ebb and flow of memory influences necessarily the process of grieving, a recursive, rather than linear process. Time is a human construct having little bearing on the most significant, either enlightening or devastating, of human experiences. The intention of Still is not to definitively answer these questions; rather, it acknowledges that while they are ultimately unanswerable, the investigation is vital to the search for meaning.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English
- Grantor dc:publisher
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Year
- 2002
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Drebes, Lynn Margaret
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Claudia Keelan
Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
- Language dc:language
- English
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- https://oasis.library.unlv.edu/rtds/1481
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:oasis.library.unlv.edu:rtds-2480