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.
Recommended Citation
Goggins, Sydney, "Prompts for Recalling a World of Lesser Damage" (2020). Theses. 424.
https://irl.umsl.edu/thesis/424