Date of Defense
4-24-2018
Date of Graduation
4-2018
Department
English
First Advisor
Nancy Eimers
Second Advisor
Gleen Shaheen
Abstract
A chapbook of poetry that explores sexuality, gender identity, mental illness, naming, and the experience of the contemporary non-binary, male bodied, Queer. "Perennial" functions as a force of resistance to hegemony, celebration, mourning, and eroticism. Through the cultivation and implementation of a personal and/or familial folklore, the poems culminate a century of inter-generational knowledge as the author draws upon the symbols of their childhood to explicate the violence and tenderness of their own Queer experience. These poems serve as a poetical feminist history and reclamation of the author's matrilineage, and the simultaneously paramount and arbitrary nature of language as it constructs the very reality one experiences.
Recommended Citation
Wines, Austin, "Perennial: An Undergraduate Thesis in Poetry" (2018). Honors Theses. 3019.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/honors_theses/3019
Access Setting
Honors Thesis-Open Access
Reflection Paper