Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4898-3598

Document Type

Thesis

Date of Award

Spring 5-12-2014

Keywords

poetry; poem; creative writing; Japanese; haiku

Degree Name

Master of Fine Arts (MFA)

Department

English, General Literature, and Rhetoric

First Advisor

Gayle Whittier

Second Advisor

Joseph Weil

Series

Humanities

Subject Heading(s)

American poetry -- 21st century; Haiku; Love -- Fiction; Loneliness -- Fiction; Beauty -- Fiction; Sadness -- Fiction

Abstract

This work is a collection of forty-five (45) poems written and edited throughout the author's time at Binghamton University. Combining strong images with experiments in form, Burning the Cherry Trees is a multi-faceted collection about achieving renewal through the loss and destruction inherent to change.

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