Of tender archives
Date
2017
Authors
Jarrott, Denise, author
Beachy-Quick, Dan, advisor
Dungy, Camille, advisor
Lindenbaum, John, committee member
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Abstract
The following collection of poems is a meditation on the archive of the human life by using texts, both real and imagined, as its vehicle. Of Tender Archives is divided into four sections: A Partial Alphabet, or a collection of sonnets that includes both archaic and contemporary letters, Anatomy for Artists, a series on visual art and the body, Lectures on Love and Architecture, a series on spaces and the ancient Greek concept of eros, and lastly, Endnotes on Restoration, or A Small Personal Matter, a long poem of an imagined destroyed journal of my great-great grandfather. These poems take their forms from drawing manuals, architectural guides, historical records and other archival material. Using this fragmentary physicality as a vehicle, these poems exist as complete and incomplete variations on memory, eros and anxiety that form the human psyche.
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Subject
poetry