Year of Award
2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Type
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Degree Name
Creative Writing (Poetry)
Department or School/College
English
Committee Chair
Keetje Kuipers
Commitee Members
Sean Hill, Matthew Strohl
Keywords
poetry, confessional, wildfire, mother
Publisher
University of Montana
Subject Categories
Poetry
Abstract
Above all else, Sunbaby is a project concerned with that which is passed down from a mother to her daughters. Less interested in writing into the center of violent acts, this series of poems aims instead to consider all the things – both physical and psychological – that exist of the edges of violence. What happens to a body in the wake of violent acts? What informs the trauma of families? These are questions Sunbaby asks its reader to grapple with.
Set to background of the desert and mountain West, Sunbaby lingers on bodies (human and other) subjected to environmental trauma such as wildfire and flood long enough to see what might happen next.
Recommended Citation
Garcia, Katelyn Eva, "Sunbaby" (2022). Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers. 11950.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/11950
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