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Dwelling Places
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Sipes, Brett
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Year and Degree
2014, Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Bowling Green State University, Creative Writing/Poetry.
Abstract
The poems in Dwelling Places explore the relationships between people and the spaces they inhabit. These spaces take the form of physical places, such as particular cities, school playgrounds, and childhood homes, and also the mental spaces created by memories. The people in these poems are deeply affected by these spaces. In particular, this thesis explores the influence that growing up in Midwestern, industrial cities has on these characters. They are unable to escape that influence even if they have moved away. That inability to escape leads to a preoccupation with the past. The places in these poems are both those in which and on which the characters dwell. In addition, these poems concern themselves with loss, both the losses experienced by the individual characters and by the environments that surround them.
Committee
Sharona Muir (Advisor)
Larissa Szporluk (Committee Member)
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Literature
Keywords
poetry
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Dayton, Ohio
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Sipes, B. (2014).
Dwelling Places
[Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1395065598
APA Style (7th edition)
Sipes, Brett.
Dwelling Places.
2014. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1395065598.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Sipes, Brett. "Dwelling Places." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1395065598
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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