Type of Document	Dissertation
Author	Wallace, Helen
URN	etd-09042003-195359
Title	Shimming the Glass House
Degree	Doctor of Philosophy
Department	English, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Sheila Ortiz-Taylor Committee Chair Brenda Cappuccio Committee Member David Kirby Committee Member Janet Burroway Committee Member
Keywords	Poetry
Date of Defense	2003-06-01
Availability	restricted
Abstract Shimming the Glass House is a collection of poems, many of which address what the title suggests: an attempt to balance what is, by nature, fragile. Whether dealing with personal relationships, or mortality, or the quirky ways we try to shape our lives, these poems, written in both free verse and in formal traditions, suggest that language, reaching out through words, can be a transformative process—a way to understand and perhaps even support a world continually off kilter. The poems collected here explore what it means to accept our tenuous conditions; to live with the recognition that maybe our desire alone has to be good enough, unquenchable and mysterious though it is. Maybe desire, as expressed through language, is all we really have to balance, what remains essentially, a glass house.
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