"Bird Call Across a Tiny Horizon" is a collection of poems that explore a speaker's relationship to her literary characters, Annie & Oscar—both self and other, life and artifice. These poems alternate between first, second and third person point-of-view, in effect building a variability of self through meta-awareness. Formally, this is achieved not only through multiple points of view, but through interviews, illustrations and dramatic dialogue. Essential themes of "Bird Call Across a Tiny Horizon" include the relationship between shame and desire; the need for boundaries and breaking down of them; the economics of love, poverty and familial arrangements; art as projection that necessitates compassion; and the commuting of distance as metaphor for the urgency of thought, longing and language. The poems in "Bird Call Across a Tiny Horizon" are intersections of the real and the ideal, the observed world and the imagination—a reality that is generated by the need to understand the formation of identities and relationships as well as the desire for a personal world that is less threatening and hopeless than the world inherited by the speaker. / Graduation date: 2012 / Access permanently restricted to the OSU Community at author's request
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ORGSU/oai:ir.library.oregonstate.edu:1957/30070 |
| Date | 01 January 8099 |
| Creators | Haug, Bethany |
| Contributors | Holmberg, Karen E. |
| Source Sets | Oregon State University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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