AbstractsLanguage, Literature & Linguistics

Tartuffe: Costume Design

by Kelsey Ann Kerr




Institution: University of Maryland
Department:
Year: 2016
Posted: 02/05/2017
Record ID: 2065870
Full text PDF: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/18415


Abstract

This collection navigates the process of grief after the speaker’s loss of both parents. The speaker struggles to connect with both the dead and the living through her physical intimacy and relationship with a troubled lover. These poems explore and exhume the speaker’s buried memories, moving from moments of wry humor to meaningful and sometimes painful discovery. Ultimately, these poems attempt to reach beyond the self, to transform loss and loneliness from a human condition into a musical tool of art for human connection. Advisors/Committee Members: Arnold, Elizabeth (advisor).