Graduation Year
2019
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
English
Reader 1
Warren Liu
Reader 2
Michelle Decker
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Rights Information
© 2018 Melville M. Gilcrest
Abstract
The Body Salvages is a collection of contemporary post-confessional poetry. The collection explores familial trauma, grief, sex and gender identity, puberty, dysphoria, and transition. The Body Salvages blends magical realism with memoir until easy certainties are no longer an option; the poems overgrow divisions between experience and identity, fiction and reality, past and present, world and body. Gilcrest draws inspiration from a diverse array of writers, poets, and musicians, including Sharon Olds, Yrsa Daley-Ward, Allen Ginsberg, Walt Whitman, Gabriel García Márquez, Ezra Furman, and Sandro Ortega-Riek.
Recommended Citation
Gilcrest, Mel, "The Body Salvages: A Collection of New Poems" (2019). Scripps Senior Theses. 1313.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1313
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
