Date of Graduation
Spring 2023
Degree
Master of Arts in English
Department
English
Committee Chair
Marcus Cafagna
Abstract
This thesis presents a collection of poems that attempts to foreground often dismissed or invisible landscapes and the people who inhabit those spaces. Drawing attention to moments of stillness, creating a space for contemplation and reflection, the poems in this collection stitch together a myriad of speakers whose voices grapple with landscapes of the past, interiority, place, and memory. These poems often center on the speaker's interior observations set against an exterior backdrop. These works are informed by the works of Carl Phillips and Robert Lowell, the British poet, Alice Oswald, the German-British painter, Lucian Freud, and the Chilean poet, Roberto Bolaño.
Keywords
rhapsody, restlessness, realism, autofiction, Anthropocene, place, displacement
Subject Categories
Creative Writing | Poetry
Copyright
© William LaPage
Recommended Citation
LaPage, William, "Ash Grove" (2023). MSU Graduate Theses. 3861.
https://bearworks.missouristate.edu/theses/3861
