English Language and Literature ETDs

Publication Date

Spring 2021

Abstract

Poetry has long been a method for story-telling. I have implemented prose and poetry to give voice to memoir. Personal photographs and illustrations I created are used in counterpoint to the poems, to exemplify the silences experienced by children who were raised in trauma and how one can move beyond the trauma experience, yet still keeps aspects of that trauma with them in a way that impacts all future interactions of their life.

Degree Name

MFA Creative Writing

Level of Degree

Doctoral

Department Name

English

First Committee Member (Chair)

Dr. Lisa Chavez

Second Committee Member

Dr. Marisa Clark

Third Committee Member

Greg Martin

Fourth Committee Member

Ana June

Language

English

Keywords

Poetry, Memoir, Childhood, Trauma, Abuse, Incest

Document Type

Dissertation

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