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If I Had a Puppy

Kacsir, Marci Adair
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1163219918

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2006, Master of Arts, Miami University, English: Creative Writing.
This manuscript is focused on poetry that combines the musicality of language with a limited space specifically so that the attention to language is heightened. I hope to get the readers involved in the poems through this kind of hyper-awareness and, at times, direct address. Directly speaking to my audience allows me to involve the readers in contemporary conversations in a way that less direct approaches often do not. Also, smaller, compressed forms offer a dimension of pressure on the line, call attention to the music in the language, and lend themselves to social commentary in a way I find particularly interesting. These poems are also influenced by the lyric tradition, especially the colloquial quality in the ballads. I see brevity not as a challenge but as an opportunity to leave something lingering with the audience long after the poem as been read.
Keith Tuma (Advisor)
63 p.
Fine Arts
direct address; compressed forms; colloquial; social commentary; musicality of language

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  • Kacsir, M. A. (2006). If I Had a Puppy [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1163219918

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kacsir, Marci. If I Had a Puppy. 2006. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1163219918.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kacsir, Marci. "If I Had a Puppy." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1163219918

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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