Date of Award
6-2011
Document Type
Campus Access Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
English/Creative Writing
First Advisor
Suji Kwock Kim
Second Advisor
Joyce Peseroff
Third Advisor
Lloyd Schwartz
Abstract
This collection of poems explores the cultural, historical, and emotional geography of rural Western Pennsylvania. Some poems map this terrain in terms of industry: steel mills, coal mining, mushroom mining, chemical plants, the Cambria Iron Works. Others chart space by means of historical events--such as the Johnstown Flood--ancestry, relationships, and childhood memories. Ultimately these poems seek to capture the ghost of a region whose industry has vanished, whose population dwindles, and whose memory is increasingly amnesiac.
Recommended Citation
Harris, Michele Lynn, "Blackdamp" (2011). Graduate Masters Theses. 57.
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/masters_theses/57
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