Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

2005

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Mitchell, Susan

Abstract

The poems belonging to this collection are descriptive and largely image-driven. Focusing on moments of ecstasy, and written in a fragmented and highly tactile language, these poems re-present experience as a visual and aural texture or surface, one that is rough and raised: a mosaic that is sensually, emotionally, and sexually urgent that my reader might run his or her hands and ears over; I want the experience for both speaker and reader to feel that immediate. The final poem or arrangement of images is suggestive and ambiguous in order to create a sense of engagement with the mysterious, strange, terrific, tumultuous, uncertain, severe, and divine: all that comprises the ecstatic. Inherent in the ecstatic (or in states of ecstasy) are the possibilities for renewed, enlightened vision, transcendence, and transformation. These poems approach various moments that suggest the possibilities for such and present-to the reader---as the title suggests---an outline offering the general features of a given subject or emotion, encouraging the reader to fill in (or feel in) the details of the experience.

Extent

76 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2005.|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT13253

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