Bodies Degraded by Friction
| dc.contributor.author | Torres, Josette Annmarie | en |
| dc.contributor.committeechair | Hicok, Robert G. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Mann, Jeffrey A. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Falco, Edward C. | en |
| dc.contributor.department | English | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-04-24T16:03:04Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2017-04-24T16:03:04Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-04-20 | en |
| dc.date.sdate | 2010-04-11 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Bodies Degraded by Friction is a collection of poetry existing in finite spaces. The first section, “A Moment and a Moment and a Moment," attempts to capture in words small passages of time as simple as clicking through a Facebook photo album and as destructive as new love. The second section, “It’s Complicated," is a manuscript in progress detailing a year in the life of an “other woman" negotiating an interpersonal relationship role underrepresented in self-help books and mass media. Several themes run throughout the book: the consequences of the use of technology-mediated communication as digital isolationist mechanisms, the collisions of real/virtual identity and real/virtual place, disruption as a poetic device, and the idea that love is a fleeting and ultimately impermanent state. | en |
| dc.description.degree | Master of Fine Arts | en |
| dc.identifier.other | etd-04112010-232428 | en |
| dc.identifier.sourceurl | http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04112010-232428/ | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77491 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
| dc.publisher | Virginia Tech | en |
| dc.rights | In Copyright | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | en |
| dc.subject | Disconnection | en |
| dc.subject | Disruption | en |
| dc.subject | Communication | en |
| dc.subject | Love | en |
| dc.subject | Poetry | en |
| dc.subject | Technology | en |
| dc.title | Bodies Degraded by Friction | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |
| dc.type | Poetry | en |
| dc.type.dcmitype | Text | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Creative Writing | en |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | en |
| thesis.degree.level | masters | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Fine Arts | en |