Rendering
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Authors
Adams-Smart, Meredith
Issue Date
2005
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Thesis
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en_US
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Abstract
The idea for my SIP began with a fish market in the Chinatown section of Chicago
and a book of Sharon Olds's poetry. I found a shared aesthetic in Olds's poem about
caring for her dying father's naked body and a jar full of dried seahorses with missing
eyes; both images are simultaneously repulsive and compelling. Before reading her poetry
I had been looking for a way to use my interest in traditionally unappealing subjects and
images, such as a peeling sunburn or my grandmother's homemade headcheese. Olds uses
imagery that examines the familiar and even the vulgar with an objective, finely-tuned eye
that makes them seem compelling and new. I wanted my SIP to be a collection of poems
that was similarly focused-and slightly unnerving.
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vi, 32 p.
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