Date of Award
8-3-2007
Degree Type
Closed Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Beth Gylys - Chair
Second Advisor
Calvin Thomas
Third Advisor
Randy Malamud
Abstract
“What does it mean, to make a genuine generalization, to create an objective concrete abstraction of a phenomenon?”—Evald Ilyenkov. As Guy Debord writes in his Society of the Spectacle, “the lack of general historical life also means that individual life as yet has no history.” These poems are my process of coming to understand history, and many of them are critiques of histories per se. If, as Frank O’Hara writes, “these anxieties remain erect,” they also shape the poems that I have written here. I want to be in dialogue with the spectacle that shapes postmodernism. I want to live in communication with the memories of events that have shaped my speech over the years. The title is a struggle to regain a home while not forgetting the displacement of the proverbial poet, a poet to whom I am forever indebted and probably likely to become.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/1059482
Recommended Citation
Carter, Laura, "Building Nest." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2007.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/1059482