Of tumble/words: Poems about wrestling with language
Date of Publication
2014
Document Type
Master's Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
College
College of Liberal Arts
Department/Unit
Literature
Thesis Adviser
Dinah Roma-Sianturi
Defense Panel Chair
Jazmin Llana
Defense Panel Member
Ronald Baytan
David Jonathan Bayot
Abstract/Summary
Of Tumble/words: Poems about Wrestling with Language is a creative writing thesis that explores the wonderful world of wrestling as a sport, and as a passionate struggle to experience wrestling with language materializing in a wrestling ring or the poetic landscape where words and music clash for creation and discovery. This project also discusses how a beginning writer wrestles with language and transforms shyness, recklessness, and uncertainties into a poetic voice that is uniquely his own, locating it therefore in the center of his aesthetics. The poems in this study expose wrestling as a dominant sphere for creation in order to highlight the spectacle of both play and reality in the wrestling world. In the collection, the poems exhibit a game that involves experimenting with sounds, words, tropes, to name a few. They tackle various themes about wrestling in the first part of the collection mostly nonsense, love and places made unfamiliar in the second and a lyric sequence in the third. Preceding the collection is an essay that explains the authors poetics stemming from autobiographical moments inspiring readers of his love and passion for wrestling and language, as well as his artistic process in writing the poems in the collection.
Abstract Format
html
Language
English
Format
Electronic
Accession Number
CDTG005693
Shelf Location
Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F Henry Sy Sr. Hall
Physical Description
computer disc ; 4 3/4 in.
Recommended Citation
Decamora, L. (2014). Of tumble/words: Poems about wrestling with language. Retrieved from https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/4682