running away, running towards: a collection of sestinas

These poems of vulnerability, love, and loss trace the journey of a poet slowly coming into their identity. They emphasize the intensity and quality of the mundane, with poems found in bus stops, bowls of soup, quiet mornings, and inkstains. The repetition of words in the sestina form also gives the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zhu, Alan
Other Authors: Montfort, Nick
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/151291