Echo and instrument
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Cory H. Mac Pherson (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- David Roderick
Abstract: These poems are motivated by grief that began in infancy, when my biological mother gave me up for adoption, and continues in adulthood. The collection is a record of my attempt to process this grief. With no memory of the biological family, the adoptee accesses these experiences through imagination instead. The term ghost kingdom refers to the place where the many imagined versions of the family and self, both biological and adopted, exist within the adoptee. Both the term and these poems are a way to give parameters to a loss that has often felt infinite in its unknowns.
Echo and instrument
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Thesis
- Language: English
- Date: 2015
- Keywords
- Poetry
- Subjects
- Adoption $v Poetry
- Grief $v Poetry
- American poetry $y 21st century