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      Flyway: A Long Poem

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      Date
      2020-08-30
      Author
      Ens, Sarah Annette Loewen
      ORCID
      0000-0002-8552-1491
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      Flyway is a long-poem articulation of home set within the Canadian landscape and told through the lens of forced migration and its corollary of trauma. Tracing the trajectory of the Russian Mennonite diaspora, Flyway examines how intergenerational upheaval generates anxieties of place which are mirrored in the human-disrupted migratory patterns of the natural world. Drawing from the rich tradition of the Canadian long poem, from my roots as a third-generation Mennonite immigrant, from eco-poetics, and from ecological research into the impact of climate change on the endangered landscape of Manitoba’s tallgrass prairie, Flyway migrates along geographical, psychological, and affective routes in an attempt to understand complexities of home.
      Degree
      Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
      Department
      English
      Program
      Writing
      Supervisor
      Benning, Sheri
      Committee
      Lilburn, Tim; Voitkovska, Ludmilla; Lynes, Jeanette
      Copyright Date
      November 2020
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/12982
      Subject
      long poem
      Canadian long poem
      eco-poetics
      eco-poetry
      tallgrass prairie
      Canadian prairies
      migration
      forced migration
      ornithology
      trauma
      WWII
      Mennonite history
      Canadian Mennonites
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