On Earth | Onionlight

On Earth is a collection of poems celebrating, investigating, and documenting human relationships, spiritual devotion, and both natural and cultivated environments. The focus of all five sections is largely agricultural and botanical, reflecting often on the writer’s experience of farming in Marylan...

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Main Author: Etherton, Caitlin
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Published: VCU Scholars Compass 2019
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spelling ndltd-vcu.edu-oai-scholarscompass.vcu.edu-etd-69042019-10-20T22:08:50Z On Earth | Onionlight Etherton, Caitlin On Earth is a collection of poems celebrating, investigating, and documenting human relationships, spiritual devotion, and both natural and cultivated environments. The focus of all five sections is largely agricultural and botanical, reflecting often on the writer’s experience of farming in Maryland and South Carolina. Onionlight is a long-form segmented essay that leaps between diverse topics including gastronomy, the agricultural and ethnobotanical history of onions, the history and culture of Bermuda, scallop shell fossils found in present-day Virginia, bulb flowers in the Amaryllidaceae family, intimate relationships, personal history, love, marriage, the specific history of the Vidalia onion, and farm experiences in the South. Short “onion epigraphs” from writers like C.D. Wright, Mary Oliver, Lucille Clifton, and Carol Ann Duffy link the individual segments. 2019-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5820 https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6904&context=etd © The Author Theses and Dissertations VCU Scholars Compass poetry essays farming onions south Agriculture Arts and Humanities Creative Writing Nonfiction Poetry
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Etherton, Caitlin
On Earth | Onionlight
description On Earth is a collection of poems celebrating, investigating, and documenting human relationships, spiritual devotion, and both natural and cultivated environments. The focus of all five sections is largely agricultural and botanical, reflecting often on the writer’s experience of farming in Maryland and South Carolina. Onionlight is a long-form segmented essay that leaps between diverse topics including gastronomy, the agricultural and ethnobotanical history of onions, the history and culture of Bermuda, scallop shell fossils found in present-day Virginia, bulb flowers in the Amaryllidaceae family, intimate relationships, personal history, love, marriage, the specific history of the Vidalia onion, and farm experiences in the South. Short “onion epigraphs” from writers like C.D. Wright, Mary Oliver, Lucille Clifton, and Carol Ann Duffy link the individual segments.
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