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Death Salon
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Schumaker, Robert J, Jr
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Year and Degree
2020, Master of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, English.
Abstract
Death Salon is a collection of poems that considers our connection to death and dying. In its invocation of the departed, it queers death, transforming grief into a literary salon through which the dead are interviewed and remembered. This is a collection with death at its center, offering a long meditation on the ways that we are living and dying. It imagines queer afterlives, such as in one poem, “Wishing I Were Barbie,” in which the speaker re-imagines his inevitable absence as sparkling fullness, with all the glamor of Malibu Barbie. The poems contemplate the ways in which we carry our grief: do we close ourselves off to it, or do we dare to look at the thing that scares us?
Committee
Marcus Jackson (Advisor)
Kathy Fagan (Committee Member)
Pages
72 p.
Subject Headings
Language Arts
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Schumaker, Jr, R. J. (2020).
Death Salon
[Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu158643454675877
APA Style (7th edition)
Schumaker, Jr, Robert.
Death Salon.
2020. Ohio State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu158643454675877.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Schumaker, Jr, Robert. "Death Salon." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu158643454675877
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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Death Salon by Robert J Schumaker Jr is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
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