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      How I Bend Into More: A Long Poem

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      Date
      2021-09-21
      Author
      Gerbeza, Tea
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      Centered in my disabled experience, my long poem, How I Bend Into More, explores the intersections of the disabled body and poetic form. Formal choices in my poem are tied to my disabled experience. White space, shape, photopoetry (composed from scanner photographs of paper-quilled anatomy), and image-text all work to pull my existence from the margins to the center. My poem performs the physical image of my body as I undergo a journey of repair from ableism and self-inflicted pain. How I Bend Into More is a long-poem articulation of a restoration of the self and the body writing itself into selfhood.
      Degree
      Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
      Department
      English
      Program
      Writing
      Supervisor
      Benning, Sheri
      Committee
      Lynes, Jeanette; James-Cavan, Kathleen; Nielsen, Emilia
      Copyright Date
      September 2021
      URI
      https://hdl.handle.net/10388/13587
      Subject
      poetry
      disability
      disability studies
      long poem
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