Light Suite

• Main Author: Fiorini, Jessica
• Format: Others
• Published: ScholarWorks@UNO 2008
• Subjects: Poetry; Travel Poetry; Prose Poetry
• Online Access: http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/871; http://scholarworks.uno.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1851&context=td

Light Suite is a collection of the work I produced during my enrollment in the University of New Orleans Low Residency M.F.A. program. The writing, format and length styles reflect my experimentation with my craft. It also provides insight as to what my "poetic voice" is. Light Suite attempts to entwine personal experience with engaged observation and occasional flights of fantasy. The following poems illustrate my attempt at diversifying personal, poetic style. There are travel, prose, and accidental meaning poems. There are poems that feature personal narrative and collaboration. All of my works do share one characteristic and that is the close relationship with visual representation of an oral experience. I employ white space, line breaks, line length, assonance and consonance to create works that are as close to my speaking voice as possible.