Sullivan, Katherine Aiken2016-07-262016-07-262016-07-25vt_gsexam:4515http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71860In this collection the poet explores the gyre of domestic life and specifically how this complex and paradoxical storm pulls women/wives/mothers in many directions at the same time. Using a variety of motifs including glass, water, fire, and bodies, she writes about the deluge of joy, grief, fear, passion, desperation, wonder, salvation, and destruction that accompanies devotion to children, partners, relatives, and friends.ETDIn CopyrightpoetryWomenfamilygriefThesis