Document Type
Thesis
Publication Date
2000
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | English Language and Literature
Advisor
Eva Hooker
Abstract
My thesis culminated in a manuscript of original poetry. I wrote and revised poems and arranged them in a book-like format. My research consisted of reading a variety of poets and studying the architecture of their books. I focused on writing in a variety of voices, forms, and sentence types. I used syntactical imitation as a way of trying different approaches to poetry—it allowed me to explore different sentence syntax, rhythm, sentence length, and structure. As I studied how other poets arranged their poems into a book, I learned various ways of forming my own manuscript. This thesis allowed me to go through many of the creative steps of writing and the concrete steps of readying a manuscript for publication.
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Recommended Citation
Dukerschein, Brenda R., "A Joining: A Collection of Poems" (2000). Honors Theses, 1963-2015. 700.
https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/honors_theses/700