Loose Ends

Loose Ends

Loose Ends is a collection of lyric and narrative poems that explores the multiple terrains of identity—individual, cultural, and historical. The poems embrace the essential incoherence of the self, resisting monolithic identity in favor of a multi-faceted, historically complex, imagistic rendering...

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Main Author: Machado, Julio
Format: Others
Published: FIU Digital Commons 2014
Subjects:
Poetry
Cuba
Online Access:http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1256
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spelling ndltd-fiu.edu-oai-digitalcommons.fiu.edu-etd-23292018-07-19T03:34:03Z Loose Ends Machado, Julio Loose Ends is a collection of lyric and narrative poems that explores the multiple terrains of identity—individual, cultural, and historical. The poems embrace the essential incoherence of the self, resisting monolithic identity in favor of a multi-faceted, historically complex, imagistic rendering of the inner life. At its heart, the collection seeks to grapple with the gravitas of living: the continual assault of history and nature on human agency, the staggering context of the universe as a backdrop for communal and individual struggle. While single poems may only touch briefly or incompletely on these themes, the collection as a whole presents an admittedly inchoate picture of contemporary American identity. 2014-03-03T08:00:00Z text application/pdf http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1256 http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2329&context=etd FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations FIU Digital Commons Poetry Cuba Poetry
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Cuba
Poetry
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Cuba
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Machado, Julio
Loose Ends
description Loose Ends is a collection of lyric and narrative poems that explores the multiple terrains of identity—individual, cultural, and historical. The poems embrace the essential incoherence of the self, resisting monolithic identity in favor of a multi-faceted, historically complex, imagistic rendering of the inner life. At its heart, the collection seeks to grapple with the gravitas of living: the continual assault of history and nature on human agency, the staggering context of the universe as a backdrop for communal and individual struggle. While single poems may only touch briefly or incompletely on these themes, the collection as a whole presents an admittedly inchoate picture of contemporary American identity.
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