Thesis (M.F.A.)--West Virginia University, 2003. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains iv, 48 p. Includes abstract.

This paper attempts to recuperate certain early poems by John Ashbery that have typically been ignored or undervalued by critics. Ashbery’s second and third published volumes of poetry, The Tennis Court Oath and Rivers and Mountains, have been unfairly neglected by critics such as Harold Bloom and Helen Vendler. Although the criticisms leveled against Ashbery’s collage poems are valid, these criticisms have caused other, more successful poems from this period of Ashbery’s career to fade into obscurity. Poems such as “Thoughts of a Young Girl,” “Rain,” “Our Youth,” “These Lacustrine Cities,” “Into the Dusk-Charged Air,” and “Clepsydra” represent spatial and temporal complexities that make them worthy of a higher critical estimation than they have thus far received. / text

published_or_final_version / English Studies / Master / Master of Arts

In this thesis I theorize hopelessness in contemporary Canadian ecological poetry in contrast to capitalist ideology and activist discourse. Drawing on Tim Lilburn’s work, I identify two varieties of hopelessness: despair and penthos. The former is characterized by disappointment, a sense of injustice, and calculations for redress. The latter is avoids these states in its hopelessness, and it is characterized by the pursuit of apokatastatic desire: the desire to eliminate human desires in the interest of identifying with other-than-human beings. Penthos is opposed to both capitalist ideology, which is premised on the desire to consume, and the activist impulse, which is closely related to states of despair. Examining Sina Queyras’s Expressway, the poetry of Don McKay, Rita Wong’s forage and Sharon Thesen’s The Good Bacteria, I develop the idea of penthos in the contemporary Canadian iteration of the lyric.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2005. / vii, 194 leaves, bound 29 cm

"August 2003". / Bibliography: leaves 88-96. / 2 v. ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / "This thesis accompanies and is an exegesis of the poetry manuscript 'farmwoman', poetry that might be described as new writing. It describes the physical, intellectual and imaginative journey I have undertaken towards the creative work. In following my journey, I examine the role that the imagination plays in my poetry, curious as to whether or not poetry must be autobiographical. I observe what my contemporaries are writing about women in the bush, as well as the bush poetry being written by women living on the land. Following an explicit insight into my own poetic development, I detail the results of my research into the contemporary movement of political activism by Australaian women in agriculture. The end of this particular journey is the completion of the manuscript 'farmwoman'." -- abstract. / Thesis (Ph.D.(Creative writing))--University of Adelaide, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2003