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Until the Cold Was Made Normal

Nguyen, Diego
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1600-2583
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1658442524455086

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2022, Master of Fine Arts, Miami University, English.
These poems locate violence temporally and spatially to show ways that violence continues beyond its initial spectacle. The thesis begins with personal poems that relate to violent subject matter followed by poems about violent global events, many of them unfamiliar to most American readers. The second section consists of persona poems that are influenced by the Japanese, Chinese and Korean genre of poems known as jisei, poems written right before the death of the writer. The immediacy and brevity of this form marks a contrast from the first section’s longer, more narrative works. The final section is a long poem titled “Lingua Franca” that operates with poetic fragments and discusses violence within the context of language (especially the death of languages), economics, religion, and myth. The Tower of Babel is its central image.
Keith Tuma (Committee Chair)
Daisy Hernandez (Committee Member)
Cathy Wagner (Committee Member)
86 p.
Literature
Poetry, Poetry Manuscript

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  • Nguyen, D. (2022). Until the Cold Was Made Normal [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1658442524455086

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Nguyen, Diego. Until the Cold Was Made Normal. 2022. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1658442524455086.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Nguyen, Diego. "Until the Cold Was Made Normal." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1658442524455086

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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