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https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.44193
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2017
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iv, 69 pages
Masters Thesis
Academic theses
Poetry
Academic theses
Text
eng
Murdock, Natasha
Dubie, Norman
Ball, Sara
Hogue, Cynthia
Arizona State University
Partial requirement for: M.A., Arizona State University, 2017
Field of study: Creative writing
The poems in sign on the dotted line to release the record force the gaze to the grotesque & complexity in the pregnant body, to the failure of the medical system, to the mother in birth. With hard syntax & unflinching language, the work spools synaptic lyrics into a graphic cesarean birth narrative that places the woman, in all her vulnerability & ferocity, back into the work of pain, of birthing, of body & mother. It returns not just honesty, but the value of honesty to the birth story: however complex. sign on the dotted line to release the record records & sets the record on fire.
Creative Writing
sign on the dotted line to release the record