The poems in my thesis manuscript "Still the Girl" operate in a solar system of candy, social media and the American South. I use preconceived notions of pop culture, kitsch and cute to cut to the quick--nothing is quite as disarming as a poem about cordial cherries, until you and the speaker discover that "Cordial cherries are injected with the same digestive enzyme that's in saliva./While the cherry waits for you, it softens." Later, in the same poem, "Pretty Girl," the speaker thinks of the cordial cherries in her stomach while her lover chokes her: "Chocolate shell melts in my warm belly,/I fill with lolling red eyeballs, glowing roe." In my manuscript, I repurpose the cliché and build new imagery, hoping the combination of the familiar and unexpected create empathy and compassion for both speaker and reader and where the exposure of vulnerability is seen as an act of empowerment. / A Thesis submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Master of Fine Arts. / Spring Semester, 2014. / April 11, 2014. / Creative Writing, English, Poetry / Includes bibliographical references. / Virgilio Suarez, Professor Directing Thesis; Erin Belieu, Committee Member; James Kimbrell, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_253581 |
| Contributors | Nelson, Claire (authoraut), Suarez, Virgilio (professor directing thesis), Belieu, Erin (committee member), Kimbrell, James (committee member), Program in Interdisciplinary Humanities (degree granting department), Florida State University (degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource, computer, application/pdf |
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