Date of Award
2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelors
Department
Humanities
First Advisor
Carr, Emily
Area of Concentration
English
Abstract
Angled Toward Hell is a collection of erasures that use the pages of Daphne du Maurier’s novel My Cousin Rachel as spaces where readers can piece together fragmented memories to build an innovative experience of poetry. On each page, there are three stories being told: the story in My Cousin Rachel, the story told by Angled Toward Hell’s speaker, and the story the reader is creating while experiencing the poems. The synthesis of these three stories is what defines the experience of Angled Toward Hell. I believe that poetry has the power to act as a prism through which the poet and reader can attempt to see one another without the limits of their personalities or personal biases. The poems in Angled Toward Hell are simultaneously obscuring the “I” and constructing an “I” that is radically confessional.
Recommended Citation
Hacic, Katherine, "ANGLED TOWARD HELL Accompanied by Artist Statement Haunting the Space of Erasure" (2022). Theses & ETDs. 6239.
https://digitalcommons.ncf.edu/theses_etds/6239