Skip to Main Content
 

Global Search Box

 
 
 

ETD Abstract Container

Abstract Header

Debridement

Farley, David Matthew
http://orcid.org/0009-0008-6059-7191
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1721429698798818

Abstract Details

2024, Master of Fine Arts, Miami University, English: Creative Writing.
Debridement is a collection of poems about subjects including the modern gay male experience and the ways difficult and even traumatic events can become negotiated parts of the self. The collection focuses on the dissolution of a marriage between a man and woman, male intimacy, queer fatherhood, violence and navigating grief. By employing narrative, particularly fable, beside lyric forms, and through the use of images related to mycological phenomenon, the collection asks the reader to consider how shame and feelings of worthlessness might be transformed into self-validation and understanding. The poems encourage the reader to view life as involving calculated risk and liminality, to step foot into a world where arrival is an illusion and becoming is a constant.
Keith Tuma (Committee Chair)
Nik Money (Committee Member)
cris cheek (Committee Member)
69 p.
American Literature; Literature
poetry, risk management, violence, self-harm, fatherhood, divorce, intimacy, grief, family, lgbtq+ issues

Recommended Citations

Citations

  • Farley, D. M. (2024). Debridement [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1721429698798818

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Farley, David. Debridement. 2024. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1721429698798818.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Farley, David. "Debridement." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1721429698798818

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

miami1721429698798818
28
© 2024, all rights reserved.
This open access ETD is published by Miami University and OhioLINK.