Date of Award
5-1-2015
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Abstract
Short Jabs is a collection of poems exploring themes of gender, sexuality, love and violence, ultimately highlighting various contexts in which these thematic issues intersect with one another. Whether it is violence within a same-sex relationship, violence between the self and the self's identified queerness in question, the violence of a relationship enduring heartache, or the violence that forces its mark on the identified woman's body, Short Jabs argues for the fluidity explicit within - and beyond - this thematic spectrum. Simultaneously - through lyric and the use of rhythmic and figurative language - Short Jabs rejects normative notions of poetic formatting and utilizes the page as a piece of technology to notate musicality. Stylistically and thematically, this collection attempts to deliver the feeling of a short jab, one poem at a time.
Recommended Citation
Warren, Heather, "Short jabs" (2015). Creative Writing. 118.
https://scholarworks.alaska.edu/uaf_grad_crwriting/118
Handle
http://hdl.handle.net/11122/5775