In the half-light of the canyon
Date of Award
2012
Document Type
Project
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
Department
English
First Advisor
Delgado, Juan
Second Advisor
Paegle, Julie S.
Abstract
This collection of poems is divided into five parts, each representing one of the Ancient Egyptian concepts of the "soul" adapted only slightly to serve the interest of the poetry included in the subsequent sections. The collection is divided into five sections of the soul, "Breath", "Body", "Name", Heart", and "Shadow". The poems in this collection concern themselves with the different modes of living, of impending and eventual death, and return to the Earth. These poems tell the stories of the living and explore what it means to experience life, while guessing at what it means to die. The author is aiming to reconnect human beings with their origins, whether it is a more personal based birth/death dynamic, or a more grandeur notion of elemental relationships between humans and insects, or humans and trees, flowers, fruit.
Recommended Citation
Haklitch, Melissa Gaye, "In the half-light of the canyon" (2012). Theses Digitization Project. 4072.
https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/4072
