Description
Set in South Texas, the poems of “Before the Body” address the border, not of place, but in between people. Following a narrative arc from a grandfather who spoke another language—silence—to a young boy who drowns in silence, these poems are expressions of the speaker’s search for intimacy in language: what words intend themselves to be, what language means to be.
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Title
- Before the body
Contributors
- Espinoza, Lauren (Author)
- Rios, Alberto A (Thesis advisor)
- Ball, Sally (Committee member)
- Hogue, Cynthia (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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2015
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- thesisPartial requirement for: M.F.A., Arizona State University, 2015
- Field of study: Creative writing
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by Lauren Espinoza