Date of Award
2008
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Scroggins, Mark
Abstract
Speak, Shade is a book of lyric verse indebted to the poetics of W. S. Merwinespecially The Moving Target and The Lice- and late Paul Celan. It eschews punctuation, and uses paradox, ambiguous syntax, derangement of the senses, and surreal imagery among its tropes. Its themes include- but are not limited toblindness as a spiritual condition, the inefficacy of the imagination before time and death, the line between dream and reality, and the silence of God. Some motifs occurring in the text are parts of the body, stars, books, light, mirrors, and shadows.
Extent
54 p.
Recommended Citation
Gibson, Raymond, "Speak, Shade" (2008). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009. 1564.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_5/1564
Identifier
FA00000919
Comments
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2008.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters