The Measure of Snow

The Measure of Snow

The Measure of Snow traces events set into motion when the speaker falls into depression and eating issues, is hospitalized, and recovers, but he is then witness and close companion to his sister's deeper entanglement with these issues. In this manuscript, I interrogate and re-imagine myths of...

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Main Author: Meadows, Lucien Darjeun
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Published: OpenSIUC 2015
Online Access:https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1683
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spelling ndltd-siu.edu-oai-opensiuc.lib.siu.edu-theses-26972018-12-20T04:33:21Z The Measure of Snow Meadows, Lucien Darjeun The Measure of Snow traces events set into motion when the speaker falls into depression and eating issues, is hospitalized, and recovers, but he is then witness and close companion to his sister's deeper entanglement with these issues. In this manuscript, I interrogate and re-imagine myths of the family through ethnography and participant-action research. As eating disorders often explore themes of reduction and control, I show these disappearances through form--sonnets and sonnet-like poems, prose poems in a tightly confined space, and poems that mirror text. As witness to her decline, realizing that words can only go so far, I also use ekphrasis--the magnolia portraits of Martin Johnson Heade and three-dimensional figures of Alberto Giacometti are chief inspirations. 2015-05-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1683 https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2697&context=theses Theses OpenSIUC
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description The Measure of Snow traces events set into motion when the speaker falls into depression and eating issues, is hospitalized, and recovers, but he is then witness and close companion to his sister's deeper entanglement with these issues. In this manuscript, I interrogate and re-imagine myths of the family through ethnography and participant-action research. As eating disorders often explore themes of reduction and control, I show these disappearances through form--sonnets and sonnet-like poems, prose poems in a tightly confined space, and poems that mirror text. As witness to her decline, realizing that words can only go so far, I also use ekphrasis--the magnolia portraits of Martin Johnson Heade and three-dimensional figures of Alberto Giacometti are chief inspirations.
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