The Eulogist hastens along two structural/narrative approaches: the narrative sequence form and how it relays a poetic narrative in newer and more unique ways, and a dialogic approach I've termed a perpetual tense, where a variety of voices representing a variety of temporal realities are given agency to perform within the same space at the same time. Both approaches stem from my own philosophical views in response to such grandiose ideas as "language," "life," "moments," "love," etc., and how reversible they seem. I respond by offering a common denominator that appears to exist amongst these ideas: the presence of desperation that feels to be the only tangible element perpetually moving forward, represented within the narratives of the manuscript's four main characters: Hero, Heroine, Marvelous Swab (The Eulogist) and myself (The Eulogist). Ultimately, the resolution is found within each character's response to their desperation as well as their rationalizations behind each response. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2011. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

This collection of poetry has been drawn upon to make up the programs for three readings of poetry before different types of audiences. The question settled in part by this project was whether poetry today should be written to utilize the sound of it read aloud or to conform to the modern standards of the poem as a printed and not an oral medium.In attempting to develop a type of poetry that could be read aloud, it became apparent as the project developed that the more traditional forms of poetry suited the purposes best. Communication was enhanced and therefore the poetry was enhanced. The tradition gave the poet and his audience a common ground that was lacking in the less formal, more modern poems.

This collection of poems engages narratives of geographical and emotional displacement on a journey toward a place from which to begin writing. The inciting narrative is one of travel - Brazil, to England, and to adulthood. A second narrative emerges as a gradual realization that these first displacements will never be truly resolved and that this lack of resolution is the only occasion from which to write. As the collection continues, the speaker of these poems is less and less comfortable with pronouncement and more and more comfortable with action. The act of doing something - moving, driving, walking, escaping, returning, floating down a river of ice - is what creates the silence needed to proceed. Through the body, deafening directives can be temporarily suspended. / by Elizabeth Rodrigues. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2008. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2008. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

A Child's Prayer is a Creative Work of 28 poems. This collection examines the relationship between religion and the familial, the habitual and the sublime. Through the reconfiguring of stories, often from a child's point of view, this collection seeks to question the past through the process of retelling it. Themes that are prevalent include memory, alienation, nourishment, and the sacramental. A Child's Prayer gently questions patriarchal religion and its multi-generational effects. / by Jill Bergkamp. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2011. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2011. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Notes on a Liminal State is a collection of poetry prepared in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in writing at Florida Atlantic University. While the poems cover a variety of topics, recurring themes include a mother's decline due to Alzheimer's Disease, infertility, adoption, and the observation of rural landscapes. The poems do not adhere to any single form. / by Patricia Straub. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2011. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2011. Mode of access: World Wide Web. FboU

Wool and Water is a creative work of 36 poems. This collection examines the relationship between the silent and vocal, between the pastoral and urban. By reconfiguring and retelling the fairy tales and nursery rhymes, this collection seeks to challenge the status quo through trickster-like diction. Themes that are prevalent include: alienation, nourishment, anonymity, and the female body. From the concrete to the lyric, Wool and Water relies upon the process of questioning patriarchal guises. These poems intersect in order to rectify the past and make amends with the present. The female voices that drive these poems are multi-generational. / by Kira Frederick. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2009. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2009. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Here, the natural world is consumed - a physical reality and an internal one. It is walled, but roofless - a contained space. Elements are absorbed, same energies interacting within us that work around us - the natural forces of gravitation and electromagnetism, fire and water, growth, and time. Fundamental interactions in nature, forces that hold the universe together are treated as symbolic of the human experience. The sense of rooflessness is an essential theme to my thesis. There is a constant return to the sky. The shifting clouds, the stages of the sun and the moon mimic a traveling through time, a constant change. There is a given feeling of freedom and confinement. There is a vulnerability, a destitution, and a lack of shelter. The open sky, always out of reach, is a tease to be free. Though it also hints at a feeling of oneness, a symbolic relation between the divine and the human. The open, uninterrupted path for direct prayer. Roofless indicates a continuous linkage between the ground and the sky, between rain and dirt, between nature and humankind. . / by Sahar Rehman. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2011. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2011. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

A collection of poems focused primarily on rural America and the South, the creative writing thesis also includes material concerned with the history of Mexico, particularly Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest. The introduction combines a personal essay with critical material discussing and defining the idea of the Southern writer.

Cette thèse, qui a pris pour point de départ l’inventaire des recueils collectifs de poésies fourni par le bibliographe Frédéric Lachèvre, vise à établir le rôle qu’ont joué les recueils poétiques polygraphiques dans la publication, la pratique et la réception de la poésie au XVIIe siècle.Au XVIIe siècle, en effet, les recueils collectifs deviennent le principal mode de publication imprimée de pièces poétiques inédites. Ces imprimés n’ont jusqu’à présent fait l’objet d’aucune analyse systématique suivie. Pour rendre compte à la fois des recueils, de leur évolution entre 1597 et 1671 et des pièces qu’ils publient, ce travail utilise une approche double.D’une part, il propose une typologie des recueils en général qui permet une étude de la place et du rôle des recueils collectifs de poésies parmi les publications du temps.D’autre part, à l’aide d’une base de données recensant plus de 10 000 pièces, cette thèse analyse les poèmes publiés dans les recueils collectifs de poésies selon plusieurs critères : forme, genre, composition, thème. L’exploitation du contenu de ces recueils par l’outil numérique permet de rendre compte de diverses évolutions et d’isoler les pièces les plus représentatives de certaines périodes.Cette étude contribue à notre connaissance de la poésie entre 1597 et 1671 parce qu’elle prend en considération tous les auteurs publiés et le mode de publication majeur de la poésie à l’époque : le recueil collectif. Dans une perspective diachronique, elle affine notre connaissance des différents courants poétiques qui se succèdent au cours de cette époque. Dans une perspective synchronique, en exploitant la base de données, elle entreprend de dégager les principaux traits stylistiques et métriques caractérisant les pièces d’une même période. Enfin, croisant l’histoire du livre et l’analyse sociocritique, ce travail s’intéresse au recueil en tant qu’objet commercial et aux usages que libraires, auteurs et lecteurs en font. / This study examines poetry collections printed in France between 1597 and 1671. During this period, poetry is not published as the work of an author, but integrated into collections, which unite the works of various authors. While Frédéric Lachèvre has alerted us to the importance of the phenomenon through his bibliography (Bibliographie des recueils collectifs publiés de 1597 à 1700), a systematic study on 17th century poetry collections is still missing. How did these collections influence the way poetry was written, read and published? To answer this question, this study uses a two-fold approach.I carve out a typology of 17th century text collections with the aim of determining their importance in the editorial practice of the time. A database containing information on 10 000 poems, developed specifically for this study, enables us to analyse these texts following various criteria (poetic form, metre, subject, composition) and further to identify the most typical pieces of certain decades.Instead of focusing on individual poets, this study centres around the prevailing way of publishing poetry in 17th century France. Thanks to this general approach it is able to identify different poetical and aesthetical movements of the time. Moreover, with the help of the database, I can isolate the stylistic characteristics that identify poems composed during the same period. This study finally considers 17th century poetry collections as an historical and commercial object. By taking into account studies on book history and the socio-cultural context, it discusses how these collections were composed, produced and read.