The Blind Arcade
Document Type
Thesis
Major/Program
Creative Writing
First Advisor's Name
Campbell McGrath
First Advisor's Committee Title
Committee Chair
Second Advisor's Name
Denise Duhamel
Third Advisor's Name
Richard P. Sugg
Keywords
Poetry, Poems, Whitman, Death, Love, Cars, Cancer, Bridges, Prostate, Narrative
Date of Defense
3-7-2011
Abstract
THE BLIND ARCADE is a collection of poems chronicling several of the pressing conditions of contemporary American life: poverty and class, sex, violence, hunger, longing and mourning, and the inverse of the latter, requited love and emotional ecstasy. The poems are set in crowded markets, on trains and in apartment bedrooms, city squares and campus quads, dentist chairs, bridges, riverbanks, and kitchens. This contemporary and familiar backdrop dictates the form of most of these poems to be free verse, although terza rima, ekphrastic, haiku, and prose forms are also utilized. The book presents its poems in three sections. As if a series of decorative arches in a blind arcade, they are not broken down into themes. Rather, they are each utilized and are ordered around the weight of their individual topics to demonstrate the capriciousness of life.
Identifier
FI11050601
Recommended Citation
Svenson, David C., "The Blind Arcade" (2011). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 386.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/386
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