Masters Thesis

Katabasis

This is a manuscript of poems that deal with the places and people in the speaker’s life. It centers on the loss of one space while entering another. Much of the manuscript is about the speaker’s experiences in Colorado and what moving to Fresno really did. It does this through poems of family and place, while exploring the complex issues of race, religion, masculinity, loss, and what it means to be a human in a postmodern society. This manuscript has played with the constructs of form and language as well. It explores through seemingly simple imagery to hide the rather complex emotions that the speaker has.

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