Fins & Limbs

Authors

Katherine G. CruzFollow

Document Type

Thesis

Degree

Master of Fine Arts (MFA)

Major/Program

Creative Writing

First Advisor's Name

Denise Duhamel

First Advisor's Committee Title

Committee chair

Second Advisor's Name

Campbell McGrath

Second Advisor's Committee Title

committee member

Third Advisor's Name

Vernon Dickson

Third Advisor's Committee Title

committee member

Keywords

poetry

Date of Defense

10-22-2022

Abstract

FINS & LIMBS is a collection of poems about the struggle to exist in places on the verge. The ocean abyss is a place where mermaids and more “real species struggle to live. On land a young mother struggles watching her newborn baby nearly die on her kitchen floor. The poems in FINS & LIMBS address anguish as they delve into our intertwined struggles with the natural world. Existential threats to the natural world turn into personal existential threats. The poems in FINS & LIMBS are part lamentation and part manifesto for survival. Many of the poems are based in Florida and plumb the fertile history of that very swampy place in which both fins and limbs are required to exist.

Identifier

FIDC010968

Recommended Citation

Cruz, Katherine G., "Fins & Limbs" (2022). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 5145.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/5145