Theses and Dissertations from UMD

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New submissions to the thesis/dissertation collections are added automatically as they are received from the Graduate School. Currently, the Graduate School deposits all theses and dissertations from a given semester after the official graduation date. This means that there may be up to a 4 month delay in the appearance of a give thesis/dissertation in DRUM

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    Up Ahead
    (2020) Head, Bryan; Collier, Michael; Creative Writing; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    Up Ahead documents the ways movement and speed inform, permit, and distort a speaker’s perception of narratives assumed both individually and collectively. The collection’s skeletal metaphor—the American interstate as vehicle for American opportunism and exceptionalism—dramatizes the tension (or lack thereof) in reckoning with the contradictions and fictions inherent in being a traveler, a husband, and an American. Many of the poems in Up Ahead pull real documents surrounding the planning, lobbying, and building of the interstate system (the largest human construction wonder in history) to parallel language found in the domestication of violence, and the absolution of individual guilt.