Document Type

Thesis

Degree

Master of Fine Arts

Major

Creative Writing

Date of Defense

4-29-2020

Graduate Advisor

Shane Seely

Committee

Shane Seely

Andrea Scarpino

Lauren Obermark

Abstract

These poems begin in both grief and wonder, which function as emotional guides to the speakers’ engagement with contemporary environmental loss, in particular addressing the extinction crisis caused by Anthropogenic climate change. Wonder in these poems is grounded in an awareness of ongoing, preventable, but not always reversible loss. What does it mean to express wonder towards environmental beauty in an era defined by its destruction? At the same time, my work returns to the recognition that grief and wonder are ‘more than human’ emotions, serving as sources of potential (re)connection with species and habitats beyond, but linked to, our own.

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