Date of Award
4-27-2010
Degree Type
Closed Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
English
First Advisor
Beth Gylys - Committee Chair
Second Advisor
Josh Russell - Committee Member
Third Advisor
Meg Harper - Committee Member
Abstract
Letter to So-and-So from Wherever is a collection of poems, perhaps even a “poem-cycle,” initially inspired by the epistolary poems of Richard Hugo. This dissertation is essentially the author’s second full-length poetry manuscript, and consists of more of a single “project” than the author’s first collection, which was published in 2007. These poems here are rooted in concrete imagery, metaphor, hyperbole, irony, and voice. The style is influenced in part by Beat Generation writers Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, and to some extent Charles Bukowski.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/1331900
Recommended Citation
Dockins, Michael Scott, "Letter to So-and-So from Wherever." Dissertation, Georgia State University, 2010.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/1331900