Vernacular Tattoos

Abstract

This thesis is a collection of poems that interrogate sociocultural constructs, play with language and form, and share the philosophy of 'everythingness in nothingness.' The work strives to capture narrative moments and lyric ideas in both identifiable and unanticipated guises, so that the reader might connect with these moments and ideas in a raw, immediate way.

This thesis is a collection of poems that interrogate sociocultural constructs, play with language and form, and share the philosophy of 'everythingness in nothingness.' The work strives to capture narrative moments and lyric ideas in both identifiable and unanticipated guises, so that the reader might connect with these moments and ideas in a raw, immediate way.