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MISPLACED MEMORIES
Title
MISPLACED MEMORIES.
Author
Lange, James Nelson, Sakalarios-Rogers, Regina A., Fink, Jonathan T., University of West Florida
Abstract/Description
Misplaced Memories delves deeply into the human psyche. Each poem within the work is founded upon a poetical interpretation of a shared memory. As the author, I asked friends and family to submit memories that involved myself and the other person. In doing so, I was provided with the materials for the project of Misplaced Memories and was given the chance to reveal a study of the varying ways in which two people could recollect the same event. The work itself traces my perspective along with...
Show moreMisplaced Memories delves deeply into the human psyche. Each poem within the work is founded upon a poetical interpretation of a shared memory. As the author, I asked friends and family to submit memories that involved myself and the other person. In doing so, I was provided with the materials for the project of Misplaced Memories and was given the chance to reveal a study of the varying ways in which two people could recollect the same event. The work itself traces my perspective along with others' perspectives in the way that the poems are written. The poems are not only written through my eyes, but also the eyes of the other person involved in the poem. The thematic schemes of the narratives use subjects such as filial duties, the nature of preconceived ideals, and the underlying values of humor, to illustrate what greater meaning can be unveiled by a return to these subjects. Misplaced Memories offers my poetical interpretations of others' memories as well as reveals how a person's persona determines the way in which he or she forms memories. In writing these poems I try to reveal that memory is formed from personal perspective rather than the actual events that take place.
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Date Issued
2010
Identifier
WFE0000206, uwf:60954
Format
Document (PDF)
MORNING GLORY
Title
MORNING GLORY.
Author
Shell, Shannon Claudia, Fink, Jonathan T., Sakalarios-Rogers, Regina A., University of West Florida
Abstract/Description
My creative nonfiction piece recounts two periods of my life, age five and age eighteen, during which various family members become ill. The distinctive, separate narratives are built around my grandfather's two bouts of cancer. The cancer my grandfather had when I was five was testicular, whereas the cancer he had later in our lives was a form of lung cancer. My grandfather's illness anchors the story though his cancer is secondary to the familial relations affected by the cancer's presence....
Show moreMy creative nonfiction piece recounts two periods of my life, age five and age eighteen, during which various family members become ill. The distinctive, separate narratives are built around my grandfather's two bouts of cancer. The cancer my grandfather had when I was five was testicular, whereas the cancer he had later in our lives was a form of lung cancer. My grandfather's illness anchors the story though his cancer is secondary to the familial relations affected by the cancer's presence. Occurrences of illness and death, particularly those related to cancer, had struck the family repeatedly for years. It was the family social structure that fractured under the weight of the devastating patriarchal event that my familial connections had strengthened. It is not the subject of cancer, but rather the social relations experienced and handled by the narrator that is the human element of something completely inhuman. Through the use of my multiple narratives, I explore this element and offer it up to the reader's interpretation.
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Date Issued
2009
Identifier
WFE0000181, uwf:60861
Format
Document (PDF)
SISTAFRIENDS OF BREADFRUIT ISLAND
Title
SISTAFRIENDS OF BREADFRUIT ISLAND.
Author
Schultz, Andrea Maria, Sakalarios-Rogers, Regina A., Fink, Jonathan T., University of West Florida
Abstract/Description
Four stories examine choices made by five women who have been friends for most of their adult lives. While these lives have evolved in entirely different circumstances, the women maintain bonds of friendship that continually resist testing, sometimes failing but always striving to survive and maintain the connections as each character struggles to find her place in the ever-changing world. The stories explore how these women respond, the sacrifices they endure, and the characteristic growth...
Show moreFour stories examine choices made by five women who have been friends for most of their adult lives. While these lives have evolved in entirely different circumstances, the women maintain bonds of friendship that continually resist testing, sometimes failing but always striving to survive and maintain the connections as each character struggles to find her place in the ever-changing world. The stories explore how these women respond, the sacrifices they endure, and the characteristic growth that emerges in their development as they maintain bonds that are more fixed than blood. In Sistafriends of Breadfruit Island, an impending death brings these women together. The death of one character serves as the catalyst for self-reflection and self-preservation. In the wake of this antagonism, the surviving members of this group of friends inherit a secret diary. The death and a desire to contain the diary are among the connecting elements that recur throughout the stories. Each story then addresses questions such as do you take friends for granted, what is the price of comfort, how much do you value tangible and intangible assets, and how much of the old self is a person willing to sacrifice for a new start in life?
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Date Issued
2012
Identifier
WFE0000314, uwf:60978
Format
Document (PDF)
THE BLACK RIDERS
Title
THE BLACK RIDERS.
Author
Colonna, Michael Arthur, Jr., Josephs, F. Allen, Fink, Jonathan T., University of West Florida
Abstract/Description
"The Black Riders" is a short story about war-about the effect of war on those asked by others to wage it. The story's frenetic, often chaotic structure is meant to produce in the reader an echo of the disunity and disorientation experienced by the story's main character. The whole of the story is a dream, a dream which has recurred innumerable times and in countless iterations and whose central narrative, it seems, cannot be escaped. The dream is, on the whole, of things which have already...
Show more"The Black Riders" is a short story about war-about the effect of war on those asked by others to wage it. The story's frenetic, often chaotic structure is meant to produce in the reader an echo of the disunity and disorientation experienced by the story's main character. The whole of the story is a dream, a dream which has recurred innumerable times and in countless iterations and whose central narrative, it seems, cannot be escaped. The dream is, on the whole, of things which have already occurred. As such, they are, for the dreamer, more like memories than fictions, the recurrences of an uncertain history, the reality and stability and responsibility of which the dreamer-as the reader-struggles to navigate. The story owes a clear debt to those which have come before it; it alludes to and attempts to dialogue with the work of Hemingway, Faulkner, Melville, Crane, Remarque, Cormac McCarthy, and the magical realists, among others. The story is a condensed version of a much longer piece which I have been working on now for several years. It is, I hope, a warning against the violence inherent to illusions of Truth.
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Date Issued
2015
Identifier
WFE0000477, uwf:61090
Format
Document (PDF)
TO WOUND
Title
TO WOUND.
Author
Embry, Benjamin Cole, Sakalarios-Rogers, Regina A., Fink, Jonathan T., University of West Florida
Abstract/Description
To Wound has the narrative progression of a formal prose novel but will be comprised of free verse poetics. To Wound is an expansion of several of my recent poetry pieces that are driven by the themes of physical and mental abuse and sexuality. The main component holding the work as a whole together is the real-life incestuous abuse of a personal friend and her struggles to come to terms with the horrific violation of her body by those who are supposed to be her protectors. To Wound is a...
Show moreTo Wound has the narrative progression of a formal prose novel but will be comprised of free verse poetics. To Wound is an expansion of several of my recent poetry pieces that are driven by the themes of physical and mental abuse and sexuality. The main component holding the work as a whole together is the real-life incestuous abuse of a personal friend and her struggles to come to terms with the horrific violation of her body by those who are supposed to be her protectors. To Wound is a creative work of fiction based on true events from the past of a person who is very important in my life. This person gave me permission to write this collection, knowing that her past was the main subject of the work, and also gave me complete creative freedom in how I would depict certain events within my poems related to the physical abuse she suffered. To Wound consists of thirty poems in total.
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Date Issued
2010
Identifier
WFE0000225, uwf:60948
Format
Document (PDF)
UNREAL CITIES
Title
UNREAL CITIES.
Author
Rupert, Nickalus Lee, Blyn, Robin R., Fink, Jonathan T., University of West Florida
Abstract/Description
Unreal Cities follows three protagonists through war-torn America, which is divided into northern Mainland and southeastern Cumberland factions. "Whalekeeper," set in Cumberland, chronicles the exploits of Murray The Chosen, an aquarium owner who models his own religion on a distorted version of the "Book of Jonah." Murray must decide whether to protect his prize orca or offer it up to the starving townspeople. "This Year’s War," told in first-person, defines a moral impasse for its...
Show moreUnreal Cities follows three protagonists through war-torn America, which is divided into northern Mainland and southeastern Cumberland factions. "Whalekeeper," set in Cumberland, chronicles the exploits of Murray The Chosen, an aquarium owner who models his own religion on a distorted version of the "Book of Jonah." Murray must decide whether to protect his prize orca or offer it up to the starving townspeople. "This Year’s War," told in first-person, defines a moral impasse for its protagonist, an aged soldier who feels he can no longer take part in battle. The speaker must risk one more skirmish or find an escape. "What the Mountain Said" explores Hawaii as the world’s last warless sanctuary in Unreal Cities. Maui is overpopulated to the point of needing a governor: Cassidy, a guilt-addled refugee who attempts to forestall a volcanic eruption.
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Date Issued
2009
Identifier
WFE0000180, uwf:60867
Format
Document (PDF)
VOICE OF ONE, OTHER A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES AND POEMS
Title
VOICE OF ONE, OTHER A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES AND POEMS.
Author
Battle, Aurelia Cleo Arrington, Sakalarios-Rogers, Regina A., Fink, Jonathan T., University of West Florida
Abstract/Description
This collection of poetry and short stories centers on the theme of "other" within the frame of family, homelessness, and loss. Constructed from my struggle for identity, bound up in these themes are a personal altar built on a foundation of love, hate, hurt, dreams, joy, and difference. Born into a racial society, America's Deep South, at a time when having a mulatto mother and black father mattered - a lot. It is the point-of-view of one who has traveled the world and understands that Other...
Show moreThis collection of poetry and short stories centers on the theme of "other" within the frame of family, homelessness, and loss. Constructed from my struggle for identity, bound up in these themes are a personal altar built on a foundation of love, hate, hurt, dreams, joy, and difference. Born into a racial society, America's Deep South, at a time when having a mulatto mother and black father mattered - a lot. It is the point-of-view of one who has traveled the world and understands that Other is a discourse of unequal power. Sympathetic to those with difference - especially the downtrodden, this collection takes the reader to the very heart of how this trifecta manifests itself in the voice of one "other."
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Date Issued
2015
Identifier
WFE0000496, uwf:61077
Format
Document (PDF)
VOICES FROM THE PAST IN LISBON
Title
VOICES FROM THE PAST IN LISBON.
Author
Schrock, Nancy Jane, Fink, Jonathan T., Josephs, F. Allen, University of West Florida
Abstract/Description
"Voices of the Past in Lisbon" presents a mixed genre tribute to Lisbon, Portugal, through creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. The first piece, "Meeting Henry," is an essay about the author's encounter with Henry Fielding and Lisbon as experienced through Fielding's Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon. The author's experiences are juxtaposed with text from Voyage, giving Henry a chance to speak in the present. A poem entitled "Ode to Henry Fielding" is included in the essay. "Fresh Cut Tulips...
Show more"Voices of the Past in Lisbon" presents a mixed genre tribute to Lisbon, Portugal, through creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. The first piece, "Meeting Henry," is an essay about the author's encounter with Henry Fielding and Lisbon as experienced through Fielding's Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon. The author's experiences are juxtaposed with text from Voyage, giving Henry a chance to speak in the present. A poem entitled "Ode to Henry Fielding" is included in the essay. "Fresh Cut Tulips" is a fictional story situated in the British Cemetery, location of Henry Fielding's grave. Past residents of the British community in Lisbon share their lives through epitaphs. A poem of redemption, "When the Light Came In," fuses the past with the present on the site of Our Lady of the Carmo Hill. "Meeting Jose" is a short nonfiction story wherein linguistic bias is revealed and overcome. "Portrait of Lisbon" ties the previous pieces together in poetry and pays tribute to the city that is Lisbon.
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Date Issued
2012
Identifier
WFE0000329, uwf:60983
Format
Document (PDF)