Date of Award
6-2011
Document Type
Campus Access Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
English/Creative Writing
First Advisor
Joyce Peseroff
Second Advisor
Lloyd Schwartz
Third Advisor
Suji Kwock Kim
Abstract
The following poems, at the most fundamental level, roll in the mud of what it means to be human. They splash in the domestic and align themselves with natural history by pinning down individual moments for examination. Structured around excerpts from The Aberdeen Bestiary, a medieval natural history manuscript which provides moral lessons based on observations of animals, most of these poems explore our desire to be, at once, social and solitary creatures, and question our relationships with nature. Using language to classify and organize the world in time and space, I attempt to reveal the fleetingness and inconsistency of the abstract. To compensate for the intangible, I peel back the sod and sift through soil, hoping to unearth the beauty of being. Sit with me in my sandbox and feel the dirt beneath your nails. We won't wash them until the streetlights snap on.
Recommended Citation
Voras-Hills, Angela C., "Here Begins the Account of Worms" (2011). Graduate Masters Theses. 52.
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/masters_theses/52
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