Insistent Animals

Insistent Animals is a poetry collection that explores the susceptibility of the body. The collection follows depictions of the speaker's rural upbringing, interactions with her estranged family, romantic and physical entanglements, and aspects of the speaker's fraught relationship to her own desires and needs. In this collection the speaker engages not only with the specificities and ramifications of place, and people in such places, but also herself as a site for happenings. There is an understanding across poems that time is not linear, and that events echo backwards and forwards in memory and upon the body. Ultimately, the speaker is concerned with what it means to be tied to others, and how such ties can be both unbreakable and untenable.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Fine Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Creative Writing

Department dc:contributor.department

English

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2020

Author dc:creator

• Ceriani, Makensi Lauren

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Meitner, Erika Sharon

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Mann, Jeffrey A.
• Labuski, Christine

• poems
• creative writing
• cars
• woods
• longing
• body
• autonomy
• bittersweet
• lush
• violence
• bees
• family
• secrets
• ties
• bonds

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Dc Identifier Other

vt_gsexam:25467

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/132470