Rose Water, Snake Wine

Document Type

Thesis

Degree

Master of Fine Arts

Major

Creative Writing

Date of Defense

11-15-2012

Graduate Advisor

Steven Schreiner, PhD

Committee

Steven Schreiner, Ph.D.

Drucilla Wall, Ph.D.

Shane Seely, M.F.A.

Abstract

Rose Water, Snake Wine is a collection of poetry which investigates issues of intimacy, inheritance, and gender. In these poems the consciousness of the speaker seeks its place among in the ephemeral materials of contemporary life. They enact a struggle to find footing in memory of a rural past, as well as an attempt to comprehend the place of consciousness adrift within the mediated isolations of the digital age. The speaker of the poems struggles to attain balance between mind and body, past and present, the sensual real and tangled abstract. Rose water gestures toward the feminine and the lingering residue of religious efforts toward transcendence; snake wine represents a traditionally masculine virility, embodiment, loss of oneself in the intoxications of physicality.

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