Year of Award
2025
Document Type
Thesis - Campus Access Only
Degree Type
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Degree Name
Creative Writing
Other Degree Name/Area of Focus
Poetry
Department or School/College
English
Committee Chair
Sean Hill
Committee Co-chair
Brian Blanchfield
Commitee Members
Sean Hill, Brian Blanchfield, Mark Sundeen
Keywords
Poetry, Working Class, Rural, Feminism, Animals, Creaturism, Ancestry, Clade
Subject Categories
Poetry
Abstract
In Hungry Animals, poems attempt to untangle the violent web of circumstance. The speaker of these poems, at times singular and at times part of a collective, is at work constantly locating and relocating their position—within the confines of their rural hometown, memory, history and inheritance, socioeconomic class, the dank landscapes of the Pacific Northwest, and their complex interpersonal relationships. The human and the animal, much like the built and natural worlds, frequently merge and lose distinction. The habitat of the speaker (and perhaps the speaker themselves) is an ecotone, the estuary between nature and nurture. The speaker seems to ask: what lessons and relationships have we internalized, and what might we do about it?
Recommended Citation
Herr, Trinity, "HUNGRY ANIMALS" (2025). Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers. 12536.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/12536
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