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Publication Date
5-2016
Date of Final Oral Examination (Defense)
3-4-2016
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
This thesis is a collection of poems that inspects ties between the pressure of inheritance and the worth of the self. Most poems within the collection are place-based, residing mostly within a suicide forest based on Aokigahara in Japan and within the author’s memories of home. the emphasis on place, along with the breakdown of language and the structural variants of the poems asks the reader to question their own preexisting semantics and doctrines. The main goal of this piece is to examine and call to question formal tradition and materialism.
Recommended Citation
Bickford, Denise, "Kindred" (2016). Boise State University Theses and Dissertations. 1098.
https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/td/1098