Sitting in a Stranger’s Bathtub

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dc.contributor.authorSullivan, Shannon Kerrien
dc.contributor.committeechairSmith, Carmen Gimenezen
dc.contributor.committeememberVollmer, James M.en
dc.contributor.committeememberQueen, Khadijahen
dc.contributor.departmentEnglishen
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-10T08:00:15Zen
dc.date.available2023-05-10T08:00:15Zen
dc.date.issued2023-05-09en
dc.description.abstractSitting in a Stranger's Bathtub is a collection of poetry interested in the relationship between grief and time. It seems the more grief "happens" or rather, reiterates or transforms itself (a birth provoked by something unknown and can only be attributed to time and its maturing), the more grief splinters and splits off creating alternate dimensions in which things went a little bit differently, where something grand can be imagined like being present for a mother's death. These poems consider these worlds half by choice, in order to let those lives continue in their mundane yet miraculous ways, and half by possession. These poems seek to represent the horrible pang of deja vu that proves the existence of alternate happenings, and also justify deja vu as a sensation intended to fill the fragments of memory. In keeping with the tradition of the Confessional movement, these poems aim toward honesty, toward revealing the truth, only possible by showing the failures of memory, particularly in the presence of grief.en
dc.description.abstractgeneralSitting in a Stranger’s Bathtub is a poetry collection.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Fine Artsen
dc.format.mediumETDen
dc.identifier.othervt_gsexam:36088en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/114999en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectMotheren
dc.subjectwaitingen
dc.subjectgriefen
dc.subjectreachen
dc.subjectaddictionen
dc.subjectwithdrawalsen
dc.subjectdyingen
dc.subjectforgivenessen
dc.subjectGoden
dc.subjectsuspendeden
dc.subjectcrepuscularen
dc.subjectlivingen
dc.subjectlistenen
dc.subjectexisten
dc.subjectfearen
dc.subjecttherapyen
dc.subjectmemory.en
dc.titleSitting in a Stranger’s Bathtuben
dc.typeThesisen
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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