Its Golden Boat
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This graduate thesis in creative writing focuses on memory, fear, and growing up. The speaker undergoes a coming-of-age from child to adult, his fears and desires also growing and changing. Its themes and motifs include the natural world, insects and their life cycles, horror and genre, myth, the changing of light in the day, and the passing of the seasons. The collection concludes with revelations about reality and the role our myths and stories play in shielding us from our true fears—our eminent mortality.
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Critical introduction -- Myopia -- Daybreak -- At Hubble Creek -- Fifth Grade, Sept. 2001 -- Driving Through the Rain -- After the Flood -- Summer’s End -- I Will Dredge -- Hide -- Moonstruck -- Lake monster -- landscapes -- Petrify -- Date night -- Ghosts -- Descent -- Closing time -- Creep -- Silkworm -- Weird tales -- Hard frost -- Lithographs -- After the Night-Shift -- Doppelganger -- The whale -- Noisy ghost -- In traffic -- County Rd. 124 -- Harvest -- The hanging tree -- Finding what we lost -- Raising cattle -- Detective stories -- Winters's end -- Revelations
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M.F.A.