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Publication Date
5-2016
Date of Final Oral Examination (Defense)
3-7-2016
Type of Culminating Activity
Thesis - Boise State University Access Only
Degree Title
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
Department
English
Major Advisor
Martin Corless-Smith, Ph.D.
Advisor
Janet Holmes, M.F.A.
Advisor
Kerri Webster, M.F.A.
Abstract
Dolls, guns, deer, death, Diana, flowers—objects feed the making of their mythos of their making. On and on. The poem rests, as object here too—a strange and unfinished monument to consciousness, to being, singing, seeing something other than. When hunter Actaeon sees Diana naked and bathing, the droplets from her startled splash transform him into deer—the hunter becomes the hunted. The transformation bucks the "payoff" of narrative—Actaeon's story will not have an ending. In Ovid's poems he will wander indefinitely in myth. The deer is somewhere out there, like language always outside me, the song the doll sings, without sound to sing it. The doll flirts with inanity—yet it’s a stage that creates and is created upon. Actaeon, now deer, ineffectually hunts. I am a hunter’s daughter trying to sing the dolls’ song.
Recommended Citation
Fuller, Katie, "Doll Songs" (2016). Boise State University Theses and Dissertations. 1094.
https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/td/1094