Date of Award
8-2007
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Department
English
Abstract
Nude With Anything is a book-length manuscript of poetry that sources itself in a painterly world, one in which a visual vocabulary privileges the materiality of language in all its attempts to rival experience. Its teleos leans often toward velocity, a fevered stacking up of phrases, and so its range of poetic forms documents attempts at building calm into the rapids, intersecting verbal excess with contrasting silences, a kind of late-phase Henry James short through by haiku. With each syntactical tactic and shift in diction, Nude With Anything employs an abiding collage aesthetic, braiding different strands of discourse and seeking wholeness risen from its ruptures.
Access Setting
Dissertation-Open Access
Recommended Citation
D'Agostino, James, "Nude with Anything" (2007). Dissertations. 3396.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/dissertations/3396