Year of Award
2017
Document Type
Thesis - Campus Access Only
Degree Type
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Degree Name
Creative Writing (Poetry)
Department or School/College
English
Committee Chair
Prageeta Sharma
Commitee Members
Louise Economides, Robert Baker, Phil Condon
Keywords
ecopoetry, Anthropocene, poetics, Montana
Subject Categories
Poetry
Abstract
This collection of ecopoems interrogates the complex human/non-human relationship in the Anthropocene. Rooted in the author’s deep fascination and scientific knowledge of nature, these poems take literal experiences and explore/distort them with language. Moving away from the traditional nature poem, this work enacts an ecology where a human speaker is decentralized and earth regains agency.
Recommended Citation
Durham, Rebecca A., "Half-life of Empathy" (2017). Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers. 11086.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/11086
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