Five Chapbooks
Abstract
Five Chapbooks explores the expanding range of formal and procedural possibilities available to poets today. The five chapbooks included (a light heart, its black thoughts, LINES, More Possible Worlds and Other Poems, dead OR died OR killed, and It is by feeling is) employ a variety of methods, from the use of computer programs (Gnoetry 0.2 and Mchain) to the cataloguing of a Google News search, and represent several formal and aesthetic approaches, including visual poems, prose poems, sonnets and various other experiments. They treat many themes, but deal most extensively with postcolonialism, imperialism, love, sexuality, death, anatomy and the internet.
Degree
M.F.A.
Advisors
Leader, Purdue University.
Subject Area
Modern literature|American literature|Creative writing
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