Date of Graduation
5-2013
Document Type
UAF Access Only - Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (MFA)
Degree Level
Graduate
Department
English
Advisor/Mentor
Davis McCombs
Committee Member
Geoffrey Brock
Second Committee Member
John DuVal
Keywords
Original writing
Abstract
This thesis is a collection of poetry written for the fulfillment of the Masters of Fine Arts Degree in Creative Writing. It contains four sections of poems which are united by broad themes and concerns, including morality and inheritance, the human role in the landscape or natural environmental, family history, myth, and anthropology/archaeology. Three of the sections are anchored around poems that describe the speaker's father's involvement in a burial or grave-digging that takes place in winter, and one section contains a single long poem in sections that meditates on a summer I spent as a member of a very small archaeology survey team in New Mexico's Chaco Culture National Historical Park, working and living amidst the ancient ruins of Chaco Canyon.
Citation
Williamson, C. (2013). Winter Burial. Graduate Theses and Dissertations Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/729