work, landscape, and place.

, and my struggle with writing are some of the trending topics the reader will find in this work.

space barricaded from human influence. The work partly involves a dialogue between the poet and New

Filipino families and shines a light on "women's work," which has been invisible because of this structure

not only by the social pressures of their father's pastoral work, but moreover by Moses---the

traditional libretto and digital clip art collage. It should be considered a work of Prophetic Non-Fiction.

Emma for her ignorance and the low stake cases she insists on taking. He is meant to work and be worked

spondylitis. I had been sick for close to 12 years, but because blood work and other testing didn't reveal any

effects of a mind given space to work and reflect. The poems show how the mind expresses itself through

creative writing, poetry. The work in this thesis has been largely influenced by such poets at Ada Limon

crash, leaving his brother Jacoby to work through his grief alone. The chapters alternate between the

, portray work and relationships at a moment of cultural shift, at the start of the twenty-first century in