Last Rites for Uptown

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dc.contributor.authorFields, Raina Laurenen
dc.contributor.committeechairMeitner, Erika S.en
dc.contributor.committeememberD'Aguiar, Frederick M.en
dc.contributor.committeememberMann, Jeffrey A.en
dc.contributor.departmentEnglishen
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-24T16:03:02Zen
dc.date.available2017-04-24T16:03:02Zen
dc.date.issued2012-04-10en
dc.date.sdate2012-04-15en
dc.description.abstractThis autobiographical poetry collection is about identity, belonging, and brokenness, dealing with the aftermath of a dead mother, a deadbeat father, and a decaying home filled with years of trash and memory. In many ways, this collection is a buildungsroman. For me, what seem like ordinary questions become a journey into memories and experiences that were once repressed. As a child of a hoarder, one who fielded questions from family, friends, and the Department of Human Service for almost twenty years, I am just starting to confidently address the many silences that were and are present in my family: my mother’s quest to hide her breast cancer and her subsequent death as a result of her secrecy; my father’s four other children that I have never met; and my grandparents’ military history spanning three continents in the 1950s and 1960s.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Fine Artsen
dc.identifier.otheretd-04152012-143340en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04152012-143340/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/77480en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectPoetryen
dc.subjectCreative Writingen
dc.subjectNarrativeen
dc.subjectFree Verseen
dc.subjectPoemsen
dc.titleLast Rites for Uptownen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.typePoetryen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplineCreative Writingen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Fine Artsen

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