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Author
Gilman-Forlini, Quinn, Creative Writing - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia
Advisors
Nystrom, Debra, Creative Writing Program, University of Virginia
Abstract
A collection of poetry that explores what it means to inhabit a gendered and categorized body in our manmade world. These poems examine the construction of time, religion, the speed of our travel, the manufactured thrills in amusement parks, the makeshift communities of strangers on buses, trains, and hospitals. Nature is present but often in the background and cultivated, sometimes obstructed, as it frequently occurs in our daily lives. These poems engage with how our constructed landscapes shape our language, our interactions with the world, and our poetic voices. While grounded in the personal lyric, the manuscript allows for surprise, multiplicity of time, the historical, scientific, mathematical, and non-linear motion.
Degree
MFA (Master of Fine Arts)
Keywords
poetry
Language
English
Rights
All rights reserved (no additional license for public reuse)
Gilman-Forlini, Quinn. "City of Imaginary Numbers". University of Virginia, Creative Writing - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, MFA (Master of Fine Arts), 2017-05-02, https://doi.org/10.18130/V32S98.
