Type of Document	Thesis
Author	Meisenzahl, Anne Marie
Author's Email Address	amm04aa@fsu.edu
URN	etd-11052009-125626
Title	It's Late
Degree	Master of Fine Arts
Department	English, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Barbara Hamby Committee Co-Chair David Kirby Committee Co-Chair David Ikard Committee Member James Kimbrell Committee Member
Keywords	Family Marriage Death Cancer Loss
Date of Defense	2009-10-14
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract "Ordinary days were best, " Donald Hall writes in his book-length elegy to his wife, Jane Kenyon, who died of leukemia. What I want my poetry to do is convey the spirituality of the ordinary, the knowledge that all the things we love are precious precisely because they are impermanent. Many of my poems express prayerfulness, though they are not religious, and indeed recount my youthful struggles with religion. Many deal with death or cancer, loss and forgiveness. My intention in this collection is to shine a light on the sadness at the core of daily delights and to illuminate the beauty of small things while preparing all the while to leave them.
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