Date of Award
Spring 2020
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School
Humanities
Committee Chair
Dr. Angela Ball
Committee Chair School
Humanities
Committee Member 2
Dr. Olivia Clare
Committee Member 2 School
Humanities
Committee Member 3
Dr. Adam Clay
Committee Member 3 School
Humanities
Committee Member 4
Dr. Luis Iglesias
Committee Member 4 School
Humanities
Committee Member 5
Dr. Charles Sumner
Committee Member 5 School
Humanities
Abstract
A ballet with trauma, phobias, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder as its principal dancers, Agoreography’s lyric “I” dangles above a chasm that counts popular culture and classical music among guardrails as transient as they are sought. The collection affords readers a window into the daily rituals and recoveries of an illness that could be “the ether’s glitch, / the boogey mensch”—hygiene, commerce, education, and sex tethered around a guarantee “they’d come undone.” Agoreography’s poems examine circumstances requiring flight over fight, quietly mapping victories that frame the portrait of who the poet is and was in a mirror not unlike Anne Sexton’s Confessional glass.
ORCID ID
0000-0003-1690-6360
Copyright
Jonathan Riccio, 2020
Recommended Citation
Riccio, Jonathan, "Agoreography" (2020). Dissertations. 1760.
https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations/1760