Title
Date of Award
Spring 1-1-2015
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Noah E. Gordon
Second Advisor
Ruth Ellen Kocher
Third Advisor
Martin Bickman
Abstract
This collection examines a self in crisis. The poems inspect what it means to be a subjectivity in constant opposition to and the product of cultural forces--it is an "I" always set against the relief of another, of a "you." The work is meant to serve as a dialogue, and its voice enacts its own anxieties through constant searching for an adequate frame, whether that frame is domestic, commercial, or artistic. In the search to overcome a sense of social and cultural dislocation, the speaker must become a lens through which all culture passes. The text treats commerce, film, music, and other literature as material from which a more stable subjectivity is formed.
Recommended Citation
Sobol, Adrian, "Until I Pay My Bill" (2015). English Graduate Theses & Dissertations. 91.
https://scholar.colorado.edu/engl_gradetds/91