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Paying Out the Line

Abstract

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An autobiographical collection of poems that primarily explores through hunting and fishing imagery my estranged relationship with my father and his untimely death, probes my experience of anticipating marriage and being married, and reflects on my pregnancy with my daughter. The collection is also concerned with issues of identity, naming, and spirituality (specifically, prayer, angels, and how language and belief interact). These concepts are often in conversation with the death of my father, marriage, and pregnancy.

Degree

thesis:*
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
2014

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Calkins, Michelle Potgeter
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Meitner, Erika S.
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • D'Aguiar, Frederick M.
  • Hicok, Robert G.

Subjects

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Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright

Identifiers

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Dc Identifier Other
vt_gsexam:2950
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/64153

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2026-07-22
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Calkins, Michelle Potgeter. Paying Out the Line. masters thesis, Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/64153