Day 1, April 14 - Presentations
Title
Trauma in contemporary poetry: realized guilt and differing closure in Gabriel: A Poem and Because: A Lyric Memoir
Start Date
14-4-2020 1:00 PM
End Date
14-4-2020 3:00 PM
Publisher
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Place of Publication
Chattanooga (Tenn.)
Abstract
In Edward Hirsch’s Gabriel and Joshua Mensch’s Because, Hirsch and Mensch use poetry as a medium to process trauma. Both works are memory projects, an elegy and a memoir respectively, and both use unique, unconventional punctuation to convey meaning.
Date
April 2020
Document Type
presentations
Language
English
Rights
http://rightsstatement.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Recommended Citation
Goggans, John, "Trauma in contemporary poetry: realized guilt and differing closure in Gabriel: A Poem and Because: A Lyric Memoir". ReSEARCH Dialogues Conference proceedings. https://scholar.utc.edu/research-dialogues/2020/day1_presentations/23.
Trauma in contemporary poetry: realized guilt and differing closure in Gabriel: A Poem and Because: A Lyric Memoir
In Edward Hirsch’s Gabriel and Joshua Mensch’s Because, Hirsch and Mensch use poetry as a medium to process trauma. Both works are memory projects, an elegy and a memoir respectively, and both use unique, unconventional punctuation to convey meaning.