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The Speculative Trunk

The Speculative Trunk is concerned with the body. Where poems are ideas they are also things always. The physical body of a poem receives certain treatment by the human body engaged in consuming it. But, speaking generally, the bodies of poems have tended to be dictated, not by play within a vital contextual space, but by tradition and the limitations of material means of replication.
The Speculative Trunk is an adventure; a mess; a re-fleshing of the body of the poem. This concern extends beyond to text to the human bodies that handle a work, or your hand. These poems speak of and circulate around the anxieties of the human body - its dangers, its pleasures, and its frailties - often in the same instance. Here again the poem's essential parts - its ingredients and its heat - intertwine, engage, and mingle - to be handled, to be made of.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:pdx.edu/oai:pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu:open_access_etds-2891
Date15 July 2014
CreatorsStevenson, Dustin
PublisherPDXScholar
Source SetsPortland State University
Detected LanguageEnglish
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SourceDissertations and Theses

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