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Abstract

The Lift is an autobiographical, retrospective collection of poems inhabiting the margin between logic and magic. These poems seek to explore how children figure the chaos into which they are born, and track resonant points of disillusionment along the maturation process. Though fairly chronological, the trajectory of this bildungsroman complicates a completely linear passage of time, dwelling in moments of bewilderment, intrigue and loss. From it emerges a durational life narrative from an embodied perspective. 

Table of Contents

The Lift

HEIRLOOM

Unison

Retrospective in a Pantry

The Glass

Baba's Biography

Shedding Season

Tidal

Shoe Shop

Gunite

FLOWERS IN THE DARK

Early Bird/Late Bloomer

The Teen Age

Game

Boxing Day

Honeysuckles

TSA

Fern & O

In Kent

The Preschool

HEADING IN

Exhilaration

Summer Study

A Kiss

"A Kiss"

Myelin

Fugue in 14C

Nowadays

Mid-March

Stolen Metaphor

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School	Emory College
Department	English and Creative Writing
Degree	B.A.
Submission	Honors Thesis
Language	English
Research Field	Literature, English Language, Rhetoric and Composition Education, Early Childhood
Keyword	poetry
Committee Chair / Thesis Advisor	Heather Christle, Emory University
Committee Members	Angelika Bammer, Emory University Tiffany Yanique, Emory University

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