Date of Award
2008
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Abstract
This collection of poems engages narratives of geographical and emotional displacement on a journey toward a place from which to begin writing. The inciting narrative is one of travel - Brazil, to England, and to adulthood. A second narrative emerges as a gradual realization that these first displacements will never be truly resolved and that this lack of resolution is the only occasion from which to write. As the collection continues, the speaker of these poems is less and less comfortable with pronouncement and more and more comfortable with action. The act of doing something - moving, driving, walking, escaping, returning, floating down a river of ice - is what creates the silence needed to proceed. Through the body, deafening directives can be temporarily suspended.
Extent
vii, 50 p.
Recommended Citation
Rodrigues, Elizabeth., "Far winter" (2008). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009. 1469.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_5/1469
Identifier
FADT177013
Comments
by Elizabeth Rodrigues.|Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2008.|Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2008. Mode of access: World Wide Web.|by Elizabeth Rodrigues.