Title
Date of Award
6-2019
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Department
English
First Advisor
Graham Foust
Keywords
Creative writing, Poetry
Abstract
The critical preface to Dispatch is broadly organized into two sections. The first section defines and analyzes the “social lyric” as a sub-genre of documentary poetry, paying attention especially to the ethics of witnessing. The second section explores the relationship between local/global and silence/sound via readings of the life, letters, and poetry of Lorine Niedecker. The focus of these two sections is intended to contextualize the framework/preoccupations of Dispatch. The first two sections of Dispatch are focused globally (colonialism, witness/documentation, cultural trauma/memory) while the final section shifts to consider some of these same issues locally (family trauma, memory, identity, place).
Publication Statement
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Recommended Citation
Schwilling, Taryn, "Dispatch" (2019). Restricted Access ETDs. 75.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/restrictedetd/75
Provenance
Received from author
Rights holder
Taryn Schwilling
File size
112 pgs
Copyright date
2019
File format
application/pdf
Language
en
Discipline
Creative writing