Date of Award
1-1-2009
Document Type
Campus Access Thesis
Department
English Language and Literatures
Sub-Department
English
First Advisor
Fred Dings
Abstract
Capital is a collection of twenty-one poems that explore and contemplate the people, history, and "place" of Columbia, South Carolina. The poems range in form, from tanka and other brief impressionistic/imagist poems to lengthier "jazz" or prose poems, as well as in voice, from the melancholy "On Our Parting" to the playful "Deliciously Racist." Thematically, the poems include meditations on death and longing, but also lighthearted commentaries on the indiscretions of local political leaders and the ambiguities/contradictions that arise from an openly racists restaurateur's barbecue being voted the best in town. The intent was to create a collection that simultaneously provides "a sense of place" while also portraying the complexity and subjectivity of that same place--a whole that is nonetheless very much fragmented and divided.
Rights
© 2009, Darien Cavanaugh
Recommended Citation
Cavanaugh, D.(2009). Capital. (Master's thesis). Retrieved from https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/10