Dear Dear Dear

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2019-05-21

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Virginia Tech

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Dear Dear Dear is a collection of prose block poems that follow a queer speaker who is being confined by the world around him (the Midwest, the speaker's family/family values, gender norms, to one's own body, mortality, Monsanto, etc.) that tries to control and define him as a person. Dear Dear Dear examines the notion that humans are a product of one's own environment. It explores how one can be ones own product in response to being confined.

Dear Dear Dear explores different themes such as 'Nightmares VS Reality', 'Confinement', 'Response to Being Confined', 'What is Home' seen in the collection. These themes intertwine with one another to create a loose narrative about a speaker actively trying to find a space where he can simply exist and call home without any fear of judgment from the world in which he inhabits.

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Poetry, Queer, Gay, Midwest, Religion, Cancer, Illness, Nightmares, Queerness, Gender, Sexuality, Body

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