Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>Abstract</p> <p>This thesis, submitted for completion for the Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, is a manuscript of poems entitled Radio Spring. The collection reckons with distance. The poems move through a domestic landscape, observing the ecstasy and despairs of a variety of relationships within a widespread community. Through subjective, sensual experience, the distinct movements of the collection explore the process of separation, lamenting loss, and the process of acclimation to the limits of distance. In the final movement the poems reach an acceptance that the members of any relationship must remain individual and that there is joy in this separation.</p> <p>The collection tries to learn from the liminal space between together and apart, between refusal and acceptance. Together, the poems argue that balance is not a condition but an unending process of adaptation, a constant shifting, a dance. The manuscript tends toward equilibrium, seeking balance in distance. Khalil Gibran’s frequently-invoked “On Marriage” insists that those in love “stand together yet not too near together: / For the pillars of the temple stand apart”. Radio Spring explores the difficulty of complying with that demand.</p> <p>With motifs of horticulture and the body, coupled with attention to the melodic composition of the poems, I hope the collection plays like a radio placed in a backyard garden. The pieces are stylistically and tonally varied and have no shortage of garden flowers: I hope moving from poem to poem feels like adjusting the tuning dial and listening to a new song play over the fragrances of the blooms.</p>
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 dc:date.available
- 2017
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Einstman, Kristian Louis Warren
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Donald Revell
- Maile Chapman
- Claudia Keelan
- Rayme Cornell
Subjects
dc:subject × 3Rights
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.*- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:oasis.library.unlv.edu:thesesdissertations-3968