Back Steps
Date
2025-06-26
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Publisher
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Type
Thesis
Degree Level
Masters
Abstract
"Back Steps" is a collection of poems and lyrical stories, a chronicle of stepping back into
the past, returning home, recovering from trauma and addiction, sitting on the back steps
watching the world pass by in the alley. It draws on memories of childhood in northern
Saskatchewan and living with depression and loneliness in the south, watching and
listening to the world from a place of shielded privacy. A kind of memoir, but rarely a
factual memoir. An emotional memoir, in verse. A lyrical memory, perhaps an invented
memory.
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Keywords
poems, lyrical stories
Citation
Degree
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
Department
English
Program
Writing