Brutalism

This collection of poems was written during my time at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro under the direction of Stuart Dischell, Emilia Philips, and Terry Kennedy. The work is interested using fact, information, and history as vehicles to tell personal narrative: through recontextualizing and defamiliarizing information, the speaker emerges to relay a story concerning isolation, grief, and violence. This thesis uses history, particularly women around revolutionary figures who have mostly been lost to time, to understand and examine the self and their relationships. The poems mostly function through series of images and associative leaps, varying between literal poems and lyrical poems to display the range of emotion inherent in the narrative.