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Worm Elegies
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Borocki, Megan
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Year and Degree
2022, Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Bowling Green State University, Creative Writing.
Abstract
Worm Elegies is a collection of poems that works through themes of grief, gender identity, family, touch, and rebirth of the body. Through the use of vivid imagery, sometimes grotesque, these poems blur the line between the beautiful and ugly. The themes of gender identity and rejection of the feminine body work below the surface through a series of imagery based in memories. The thread of a dead mother parallels the speaker’s journey of self-discovery and rejection of their feminine body. While many may think of grief as something that works in stages, this collection works actively against this idea. We are always grieving, actively our whole lives, through longing for the love from people and things we are doomed to miss.
Committee
Larissa Szporluk, MFA (Committee Member)
Abigail Cloud, MFA (Committee Chair)
Pages
46 p.
Subject Headings
Fine Arts
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Gender
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Language Arts
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Literature
Keywords
grief, death, mother, gender identify, gender, queer, worm, grotesque, imagery, family,
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Borocki, M. (2022).
Worm Elegies
[Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1648490428702568
APA Style (7th edition)
Borocki, Megan.
Worm Elegies.
2022. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1648490428702568.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Borocki, Megan. "Worm Elegies." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1648490428702568
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