Date of Graduation
Summer 2012
Degree
Master of Arts in English
Department
English
Committee Chair
Jane Hoogestraat
Abstract
FAITH'S LATE PROCESSION: POEMS is a collection of poetry written and/or revised during my time at Missouri State University. The collection focuses on the use of Midrash as a means of approaching poetry, but the subject matter is not limited to working from biblical texts. The poems in this collection discuss the poet's ongoing struggle with faith; his father's gay identity; the difficulties of watching, as a child, his father worsen over time with advancing stages of schizophrenia, and the duality of growing up in urban St. Louis, while spending summers on his father's farm in upper east Tennessee. The poems are written in free verse. KEYWORDS: poetry, faith, Appalachia, father, queer identity, family, free verse
Keywords
poetry, faith, Appalachia, father, queer identity, family, free verse
Subject Categories
English Language and Literature
Copyright
© Dustin M. Macormic
Recommended Citation
Macormic, Dustin M., "Faith's Late Procession: Poems" (2012). MSU Graduate Theses/Dissertations. 1118.
https://bearworks.missouristate.edu/theses/1118
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