"Ordinary days were best, " Donald Hall writes in his book-length elegy to his wife, Jane Kenyon, who died of leukemia. What I want my poetry to do is convey the spirituality of the ordinary, the knowledge that all the things we love are precious precisely because they are impermanent. Many of my poems express prayerfulness, though they are not religious, and indeed recount my youthful struggles with religion. Many deal with death or cancer, loss and forgiveness. My intention in this collection is to shine a light on the sadness at the core of daily delights and to illuminate the beauty of small things while preparing all the while to leave them. / A Thesis Submitted to the Department of English in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Fine Arts. / Fall Semester, 2009. / October 14, 2009. / Family, Marriage, Death, Cancer, Loss / Includes bibliographical references. / Barbara Hamby, Professor Co-Directing Thesis; David Kirby, Professor Co-Directing Thesis; David Ikard, Committee Member; James Kimbrell, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_180690 |
| Contributors | Meisenzahl, Anne (authoraut), Hamby, Barbara (professor co-directing thesis), Kirby, David (professor co-directing thesis), Ikard, David (committee member), Kimbrell, James (committee member), Department of English (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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