Date of Graduation
Spring 2019
Degree
Master of Arts in English
Department
English
Committee Chair
Marcus Cafagna
Abstract
Middle Car is a collection of poems written during my course of studies at Missouri State University, and illustrates my evolution as a writer through a consistent focus on story. The poems explore the everyday, fantastical, often unexpected, and sometimes forced frictions between people and or environment, which cause moments of meaning and resonance. The poems collected here are introduced by and an essay advocating for the preservation of story through narrative and situates my work in a neo-Romantic position in a post-Deconstruction world.
Keywords
poetry, story, narrative, free verse, midwestern, historical, World War II, romantic, deconstruction
Subject Categories
Poetry
Copyright
© Christopher Daniel Crabtree
Recommended Citation
Crabtree, Christopher Daniel, "Middle Car" (2019). MSU Graduate Theses/Dissertations. 3379.
https://bearworks.missouristate.edu/theses/3379
