A collection of poems, written from 2011 - 13, focusing on lyrical, narrative, and sound-centered forms.

<p> Storytellers have an interdependent relationship with their narratives. If you have ever told a lie, you understand. Stories take on a life of their own, as you consider the potential ramifications of each contingent piece. Definite sets of things happen as results of specific other things. If you throw an ax at me, only a few things can immediately happen, and our relationship will be forever changed. Events evolve. When we create or discover a narrative, we live by its logic. Upon consideration, a moment compels a series of moments modulated by a voice, a single perspective, a personal narrative, which is to say a story. Stories are fabrications of reality, conveyance mechanisms of fact, fiction, and assertion. Stories are contrived, whereas narratives just exist. Narratives are there to be discovered. They are the veins of human action left by life&rsquo;s tendency toward disorder. Narrative is entropy through time.</p>

Cancer, craft beer, little league, vogue. It's a collection of essays. And this is its abstract.

Thesis by James "Jack" McCrone, completed to obtain MFA degree in poetry.

A poetic meditation on place (and sense of place) in the west and in the evolving technological modern.

This thesis is a series of chapters from a memoir-in-progress about the author's mother's experience as a Vietnamese-French immigrant, and the author's own identity quest. The chapters are organized thematically. Prose poems have been inserted between some chapter groupings as section breaks.

A collection of realist short fiction.

This professional paper comprises a selection of my fiction and non-fiction works, many of which take place in the southwestern United States.

This is a collection of poetry.

There are animals in all of us. Just open your mouth.