I've Been Reading About Disaster Lately

Author

Lisa Catherine McMurtray

Issuing Body

Mississippi State University

Advisor

Lyons, Richard

Committee Member

Pierce, Catherine

Committee Member

Kardos, Michael

Date of Degree

5-12-2012

Document Type

Graduate Thesis - Open Access

Major

English

Degree Name

Master of Arts

College

College of Arts and Sciences

Department

Department of English

Abstract

I’ve Been Reading About Disaster Lately is a collection of original poetry which focuses on how identity and agency are shaped through personal and public circumstance, through the intersection of the human and animal, and through the development of language and personal mythology. This collection is preceeded by a critical introduction which analyzes how poets mediate public and private disaster. The introduction specifially focuses on the eight poems written by Bob Hicok in the aftermath of the Virginia Tech Shooting, and examines how language, either in its presence or absence, functions to resolve the disconnect between pre-disaster and post-disaster.

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11668/17922

Comments

Bob Hicok||Poetry||Master's Thesis

Recommended Citation

McMurtray, Lisa Catherine, "I've Been Reading About Disaster Lately" (2012). Theses and Dissertations. 2886.
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/td/2886