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A Little Pozo Underfoot
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Powers, Riva R
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Year and Degree
2014, Master of Arts, Miami University, English.
Abstract
A Little Pozo Underfoot: Volume 1 begins a creation epic. The poem explores the origins of life on earth, adapting various scientific and mythic models for poetic investigation of the function of time in human culture. A mixed-language epic poem in English and Spanish, it experiments with cyclical narrative. Drawing from pre-Columbian myth as well as adaptations of Judeo-Christian texts in the construction of its plot, the poem is influenced by theories of language, time, identity, and spirit by poets and thinkers such as Octavio Paz, Kenneth Burke, Patricia Parker, and Lyn Hejinian. Unsettling linear narrative structure and traditional syntax by using techniques of recursion and translinguistic play to establish an ongoing present, the poem aims to demonstrate that open-ended language can operate according to a cyclical understanding of time.
Committee
Cathy Wagner (Committee Chair)
Pages
49 p.
Subject Headings
Language Arts
Keywords
creation
;
cyclical
;
origins
;
mixed-language
;
myth
;
English-Spanish
;
epic
;
poetry
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Powers, R. R. (2014).
A Little Pozo Underfoot
[Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1407454840
APA Style (7th edition)
Powers, Riva.
A Little Pozo Underfoot.
2014. Miami University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1407454840.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Powers, Riva. "A Little Pozo Underfoot." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1407454840
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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