<p>This thesis is a book length collection of poetry. Divided into five sections, the book </p>
<p>follows a fractured self as it relates to romantic partnership, friendship, sexual trauma, political </p>
<p>identity, and other factors. The first section introduces the different paradigms the speaker spends </p>
<p>the rest of the book trying to understand her role within, exploring themes such as the ecstasies </p>
<p>and let-downs of friendship, sexuality arrested by trauma and body-image, and anxieties about </p>
<p>climate disaster and economic collapse. The second section grounds the speaker’s experience of </p>
<p>dissociation in her college years. The third section continues to develop themes from the first two </p>
<p>sections with an emphasis on the speaker’s relationship to language and its limitations. The fourth </p>
<p>section, the only standalone sequence of poems in the collection, recounts a set of circumstances </p>
<p>in which the speaker must reconcile her different factions of self during a crisis. The fifth and final </p>
<p>section presents a speaker on the doorstep of acceptance of self, attempting to find stasis.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:purdue.edu/oai:figshare.com:article/22657663 |
| Date | 29 April 2023 |
| Creators | Kirby Reese Knowlton (15320467) |
| Source Sets | Purdue University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis |
| Rights | CC BY 4.0 |
| Relation | https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Knowlton_Thesis_Dilettante_Tattoo_pdf/22657663 |
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