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Candidate: Shanda Blue Easterday

Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy

Department: English

Title: The Beekeeper's Wife

Date: Friday, April 16, 2004 4:00-6:00 p.m.
3011 Brown

Committee: Dr. Herbert Scott, Chair
Dr. Gwen Raaberg
Dr. John Saillant
Dr. Cynthia Ruoff

Abstract: Using Herbert Scott's poem "The Beekeeper's Wife" as a prologue, and my own experience as the wife of a beekeeper, I have written a collection of poems about surrealistic moments in the natural world, as well as the large and small semi-biographical events of a woman's life. The collection includes poems ostensibly about the beekeeper's family, life in small town America, and observations about the life and art of the naturalist and painter Maria Sibylla Merian, b.1647-d. 1717. In the tradition of Muriel Rukeyser, Ann Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore, all of whom I consider to be my fore-mothers in poetry, these works can be understood to be somewhat political as well as, I hope, artful.


 

 


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