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The Bloody Planet

Buchen, Callista Mary
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1269214700

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2010, Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Bowling Green State University, Creative Writing/Poetry.
A collection of original poetry by Callista Buchen. Without sections, the intuitive thesis is meant to be experienced one poem to the next. Occasional blank pages offer soft pauses that allow the reader to linger over the emotional rise and fall of the poems, much like the conductor’s baton posed at the apex between symphonic movements. Opening with “Masterwork,” the poet outlines a celebratory process of building and making, in both art and relationship, which gives the rest of the collection shape and purpose. To that end, as a means to enact this process, the complete collection presents pieces on a variety of themes using different forms, including the villanelle, free and blank verse, and prose poetry, all ordered and linked through mood and voice, as well as a return to cosmic imagery. Scattered among poems considering time, mystery, and the mundane, meditations on planets act as touchstones. These planet pieces look outward, to the cosmos, as a way to look back at the individual and humanity, as a way to make sense of Earthly living. The assortment of poems throughout the thesis juxtaposes the gnomic and the accessible, the logical and the imagined, in contexts and orders that intend to re-vision accepted ways of thinking, categorizing, remembering, and being. An sound-conscious current underscores the collection, as does a celebration of language, potential, and emotion, manifested in lush description and ending in a call for further creation, further building.
Larissa Szporluk (Committee Chair)
Karen Craigo (Committee Member)
F. Daniel Rzicznek (Committee Member)
55 p.

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  • Buchen, C. M. (2010). The Bloody Planet [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1269214700

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Buchen, Callista. The Bloody Planet. 2010. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1269214700.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Buchen, Callista. "The Bloody Planet." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1269214700

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