Record Details
Keepaway
ScholarsArchive at Oregon State University
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Keepaway |
| Names |
Seroussi, Dahlia
(creator) Richter, Jennifer B. (advisor) |
| Date Issued | 2015-04-30 (iso8601) |
| Note | Graduation date: 2015 |
| Abstract | Keepaway is a collection of poems that examines a woman's relationship with language, intimacy, family, the body, and memory. While Keepaway may be classified as a coming-of-age collection, its speaker questions this process's gendered implications. In these poems, emotional distances are mapped, and histories, both personal and communal, retraced by a speaker who is often at odds with her own desires. The poetic forms in the collection--from short couplets to prose poems; long skeletal pieces to poems in itemized sequence--mirror the speaker's own tumultuous interior. Indeed, these poems are most interested in the tensions, boundaries, and what is (or has been) misunderstood. The speaker's bilingual background is a key thread throughout Keepaway, bringing to light both the power and fallibility of language to capture memory, identity, and experience. |
| Genre | Thesis/Dissertation |
| Topic | family |
| Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/1957/56250 |
