Machined Music
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In this master thesis, the candidate presents his collection of original poems, accompanied by a critical introduction, which explains his writing and revision process. In the critical introduction, careful attention is given to his conception of what and how poetry does what it does as well as the process of revising the entire manuscript and what already published texts helped him the most in reworking, reordering and retitling the collection. The candidate asserts, through his critical introduction, and in the poems themselves, that his poetry is carefully constructed syntax artificially made to seem as a natural utterance and that this concept has developed during his graduate work at the University of Missouri – Kansas City.
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How to tell your kids they won't be astronauts -- Prayer to forget -- Ravens -- Cleaning the crow's skull -- Notes to the moon -- They are farmers -- Feather lice -- Honey's Grocery Store dance -- Dear Honey -- Young moon -- Erasure of the oath -- Moon Kaddish -- Elegy in honey -- Joys -- Ghazal for an indecisive moon -- How a goddess dies (O, honey) -- The birds -- When we were birds -- Honey, the beautician -- Sincerely, in theory -- Dear albatross -- Honey is -- Blessings -- How a goddess dies (O, honey) -- Loons into fish -- The fish option -- Landscape with dead fish -- Ink moon -- Cicadas -- Honey is -- Overcast -- [Almost scarf weather already] -- To be the moon -- In honey, then grass -- The Tarkio River -- Ars luna -- Snow moon -- Jewels -- Pure contact -- It is no the lion that eats the soul -- A cormorant dance -- Magically opened lockers -- Ars mel -- In my VCR a documentary on bee-keeping
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M.F.A.