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Title
The wilting tree
Description
The Wilting Tree is a collection of poems that explores family as the first and final frontier of human connection and understanding. Through three primary narrative threads (parents, siblings and the individual member), the poems excavate the love, longing, betrayal, violence, enigma, joy, humor, compromise, ambivalence, resilience and inevitability that’s found within family and family dynamics, and innovate a mythology to concretize and tribute what often never renders or is kept secret in families over a lifetime. The speaker of these poems serves as both participant and spectator as he reckons with his own (and often secret) shifting loyalty and resignation toward family and his own human development, which has no choice but to play out within the audience of family over many departures and returns.
Date Created
2017
Contributors
- Pearson, Dustin (Author)
- Dubie, Norman (Thesis advisor)
- Hogue, Cynthia (Committee member)
- Ball, Sara (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Topical Subject
Resource Type
Extent
iii, 25 pages
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
Primary Member of
Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.43964
Statement of Responsibility
by Dustin Pearson
Description Source
Viewed on July 10, 2017
Level of coding
full
Note
thesis
Partial requirement for: M.F.A., Arizona State University, 2017
Field of study: English
System Created
- 2017-06-01 01:04:10
System Modified
- 2021-08-26 09:47:01
- 3 years 3 months ago
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