Simple Fires

creative impulses

McNamara, Marjorie Schratz ; Dr. Charlotte Gross, Committee Member,Dr. Nick Halpern, Committee Member,Dr. Thomas Lisk, Committee Chair,McNamara, Marjorie Schratz ; Dr. Charlotte Gross ; Committee Member ; Dr. Nick Halpern ; Committee Member ; Dr. Thomas Lisk ; Committee Chair

University:North Carolina State University

关键词: creative impulses;   

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美国|英语

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【 摘 要 】

"Suspended in Mid-Air while Looking under the Bed" begins and loosely foreshadows this collection of poetry and short stories.I am a storyteller, pulled by both family and place in my life.In this thesis, I play impresario and follow each short story with poems which resonate with that story.The first poems and short stories speak from places in my life:Ireland, Prague, and Malawi.Then my storytelling comes closer to family with a fictional account of my great-grandparents Wilhelm and Ana Krane, who immigrated to Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, in the 1880's.My story of family continues through relationships, reunions, my parents, and ends with the contemporary world when my translation of Charles Baudelaire merges into a poem about Iraq.