Year of Award
2016
Document Type
Professional Paper - Campus Access Only
Degree Type
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Degree Name
Creative Writing (Poetry)
Department or School/College
Department of English
Committee Chair
Prageeta Sharma
Committee Co-chair
Joanna Klink
Commitee Members
Joanna Klink, MaryAnn Bonjorni
Keywords
poetry
Publisher
University of Montana
Subject Categories
Arts and Humanities | Creative Writing | Poetry
Abstract
What Do You Do Every Day is a collection of poems that question the narrator’s understanding of self and her general life after having been put through a trauma. Following the narrator from a specific point of physical assault, through the following months of post-traumatic stress disorder and recovery, these poems challenge how we define ourselves and our worth in the face of trauma altering identity. Using surreal and queer aesthetics, this manuscript disrupts the understanding of the self as the self is first split and then forced to reconcile with itself.
Recommended Citation
Roffman, Diana, "What Do You Do Every Day" (2016). Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers. 10663.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/10663
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