This collection includes poems which are often about how people perceive the world around them. Subject matter of the fifty poems varies from the natural world of whales, geese, and turtles to the relationships that exist between the growing up and the growing older, the living and the dead. Music is an important linking theme throughout these poems, and the language of music is employed to suggest further ranges of meaning. Poems look at present and past, the real and the more or less real, and the boundaries that exist and may be crossed in many of these cases. / Walking On the Belly of My Shadow is written in free verse, is primarily lyric in style, but contains a narrative voice which is often telling a specific story or bit of history. In some cases forms are employed in a variant mode, such as the near-sonnet, or in stanzas of tercets, quatrains, or cinquains. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-11, Section: A, page: 3924. / Major Professor: David Kirby. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1991.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76536 |
| Contributors | O'Brien, Laurie., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 68 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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