Senior Theses
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Publication Date
5-24-2018
Document Type
Thesis (Linfield Access)
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing
Department
English
Faculty Advisor(s)
Anna Keesey
Subject Categories
Creative Writing | Poetry
Abstract
This creative writing thesis contains a series of poems by Benjamin Bartu written over a four-year period (spring 2014 to spring 2018).
- Commonwealth: Interlude
- The Pinup Bird Chronicle
- Revisiting
- Love's Not What It Used to Be
- Like the Leaf I'd Wanted Life to Be
- Practice
- Final Take
- Lakeside
- Spilt Popcorn
- Eleven
- One Small Piece
- Ceremonies
- An Hour from Muir Woods
- Twelve-Proof Maudlin
- Secondary
- Kintsugi
- Hunger
- Commonwealth: The Kelly Cycle
- Protracted Hunger
- Mesh
- The Rooms that He Occupied at the End of His Life
- Earrings and Three Blackberries
- Title
- Circus Sonnet
- Recognition Plea
- I Ran Quickly
- Aubade with Death and Good Fortune
- Peregrine Way
- Hardly There
- Rubbing
- The Flock
- Past You
- Sierra Yearning
- Beneath the Blankets
- Commonwealth: Reprise
Recommended Citation
Bartu, Benjamin, "Surviving the Origin Story" (2018). Senior Theses. 20.
https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/englstud_theses/20