I always preferred fried chicken over hamburgers or hotdogs when I was a kid. And though that seems like a terrible way to begin an abstract about poetry, I have to admit that it sums up most of what I have learned about it. Poetry has always been about choices for me. I have never closed my eyes and pictured Mount Saint Helens and meditated only eating wafers and drinking river water just for a poem. Whey come around, I sit and write them or I don't, And if I don't I figure, like an important call, they'll call again. That's when I say, "Oh there you are!" And I either speak to them to me, or I don't. I am a moody person, so they have to catch me when I feel entertaining. There's no grand scheme to the craft. Everyone has their bag of tricks and like a really great magician; I won't go on boring readers with my vast and supreme knowledge about the subject. I can say that I suffered for most of these, and that makes it all the more worse for me to call this a book. I tried to compile poems here that seemed interested in each other. As a matchmaker, I think poems either have an attraction to each other or they don't. It has little to do with subject or lines or form and mostly to do with emotion and personality. Poems have a presence that is usually never supplied in the poem itself. Some people call this theme or focus. These poems seem to feel comfortable next to each other and that is why they are here.I didn't write this book with anything in mind or at any certain period of my life. I like to think that I have always been writing this book. I split this book into three sections because I felt that there were three versions of me in all my poems. The first section, "Morning Spaces," is an introduction to my present daily life while the second section, "Confession," deals more with my youth. The third section is about poetry itself. The title sums it up best, "She needs No Makeup." / A Thesis submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts. / Summer Semester, 2003. / April 2, 2003. / Poetry, Tallahassee / Includes bibliographical references. / David Kirby, Professor Directing Thesis; Andrew Epstein, Committee Member; James Kimbrell, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_181588 |
| Contributors | Lauren, Ben (authoraut), Kirby, David (professor directing thesis), Epstein, Andrew (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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