How I Bend Into More: A Long Poem

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Date
2021-09-21Author
Gerbeza, Tea
Type
ThesisDegree Level
MastersMetadata
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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
EnglishProgram
WritingSupervisor
Benning, SheriCommittee
Lynes, Jeanette; James-Cavan, Kathleen; Nielsen, EmiliaCopyright Date
September 2021Subject
poetry
disability
disability studies
long poem