Title
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
Master of Fine Arts
Department
English
Advisor's Name
Campbell McGrath
Advisor's Title
Committee Chair
Advisor's Name
Denise Duhamel
Advisor's Name
Kimberly Harrison
Keywords
Poetry
Date of Defense
3-4-2010
Abstract
HALLELUJAH SHOES is a collection of poems, many grounded in the landscape and vernacular of rural and coastal North Florida, and steeped in a sense of place, loss, and the difficulties and mysteries of the human condition. Written mainly in free verse, the collection also contains poems written in traditional and nontraditional forms: abecedarian, haiku, sonnet, noun, and theatrical play. Section one is dominated by the narrator’s relationships with family and culture—their demands, dramas, and allures—and the conflict they create with the narrator’s desire for autonomy. Section two focuses on the narrator as she makes her own way in the world, exercising independence yet still subject to the emotional undertow of childhood experiences. Section three locates the narrator in the present, back in Florida after many years away, with knowledge of the transience of life, but taking joy where she can find it.
Recommended Citation
Richardson, Laura E., "Hallelujah Shoes" (2010). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 163.
http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/163