Date of Award
5-1-2013
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
Creative Writing
First Advisor
Jordan, Judy
Abstract
Deer Hunting in Baghdad is a collection of poems dealing with both autobiographical and fictional responses to death. The collection includes poems that primarily address the period closely following the death of the author's father, as well as poems that focus on a largely fictional narrative centered around the character of the author's brother. These poems explore the journey of the brother character through his participation in the second Iraq war, and a subsequent delusion that causes him to convince himself that his father had never died. These poems focus on themes of family, death, religion, trauma, survival, and PTSD.
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