English Theses and Dissertations

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    DAY OF THE BORDER GUARDS
    (2010) Young, Katherine Elizabeth; Plumly, Stanley; Creative Writing; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    This collection of poems examines themes of love, disillusionment, betrayal, and personal redemption. Set in locations ranging from Tomsk, Siberia, to a baseball stadium in Washington, D.C., these poems employ both traditional poetic form and free verse to explore the promise and peril of human connections across eras, borders, and cultures. The poems draw on the author's many years of living, working, and studying poetry in Russia and the former Soviet Union: in content and style, they are indebted to the traditions of Russian as well as English poetry. The thesis also includes six translations of poems from the Russian-language originals by award-winning poet Inna Kabysh, whose work is largely unavailable to English-language readers.
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    A Familiar Curve of Vein: Poems and Translations
    (2004-05-18) Keefe, Anne; Plumly, Stanley; Creative Writing
    The themes in this collection of poems center on issues of gender and memory. The poems are self-consciously aware of their status as art objects, and gender and power dynamics are examined within the artistic process through ekphrastic interaction with the visual. The collection also includes new verse translations of Spanish-language poets, Julia de Burgos, Pablo Neruda, and Federico García Lorca. These translations adhere less strictly to literal line-by-line readings, and instead, focus on conveying the emotional content of the original texts. The translations are balanced by original poems that explore moments of separation and coalescence between the cultures of two languages by creating a space in which both English and Spanish are musical possibilities.