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Item Restricted Holes, depressions, and other losses(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2014) Dean, Whitney, author; Levy, Ellen J., advisor; Calderazzo, John, committee member; Diffrient, Scott, committee memberA collection of memoir essays about loss and survival.Item Open Access Making meaning in a modern world: place and identity in Leadville, Colorado(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2010) Hawk, Jennifer, author; Fiege, Mark, advisor; Ore, Janet, advisor; Calderazzo, John, committee memberLeadville, Colorado is one of many former mining towns significant to not only the state of Colorado, but also to the history of the West as a whole. Part of the larger history of the extractive industries on which the Western United States was founded, mining towns like Leadville provide a postindustrial landscape through which to study the ways in which individuals and communities rely on their history and memory to maintain a stable identity in a modem world that no longer accommodates the kind of economic structure that they most strongly identify with. This thesis consists of three parts, two of which offer a more traditional historical study of the ways in which Leadville residents use their past to mitigate the realities of life in the modem world. The third portion, a non-fiction essay, reflects on my own experiences with both Leadville and with the nature of modem life.Item Restricted On the corner of Forest and Broadway(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2012) Rasmussen, Marcus, author; Campbell, Sue Ellen, advisor; Calderazzo, John, committee member; Cafaro, Philip, committee memberI have always been empathetic to beings other than humans. When I was a young boy, natural landscapes and wild animals captured my imagination. By taking me into the wilderness and nurturing my interests, my parents taught me to respect and appreciate the beauty and wonders of the natural world. These essays demonstrate my continuing passion and love for nature but they also reflect the complexity and inherent difficulties of trying to live in a changed and changing world, while recognizing my complicity in that change. This work grapples with some of the ethical choices I have to make as an educated, compassionate human. How does someone who loves and seeks to protect the natural world also honor and protect his own species' role in this world? Is human flourishing compatible with the flourishing of the wild world? By exploring my intimate personal connections to wild nature, I seek to raise and sometimes answer ethical questions such as these. But at the heart of my writing lies a boy who is still in awe of the natural landscape and the wild beings he shares it with.Item Restricted PÄ…czki(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2012) Alexander, Karen E., author; Becker, Leslee, advisor; Alexander, Ruth, committee member; Calderazzo, John, committee memberThis collection of short stories and essays was written and revised between 2009-2012 during my tenure as a student in the M.F.A. in Creative Writing program at Colorado State University. Taken as a polished creative portfolio, these works document my development as a young writer and serve as fulfillment of the thesis portion of the M.F.A. dual degree in Fiction and Nonfiction.Item Restricted The Choice City mistake parade(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2011) Mircos, Gus, author; Doenges, Judy, advisor; Calderazzo, John, committee member; Aoki, Eric, committee memberThis thesis consists of a fictional novella continuing in the literary conversation of persona character texts. The story is about a young nameless male whose oversensitive and extreme personality causes him great pleasure and pain in almost all everyday interactions. Throughout the narrative, we follow this nameless man through a series of romantic triumphs and failures, centering around his current love affair with a woman named, "Pinky." Pinky challenges the narrator in many different facets of his emotionality to the point where he chooses to analyze not only his current relationship with her, but other relationships of his past as well, including his upbringing in a small town, and his Greek heritage which has greatly shaped his sense of self, as a way to come to terms with his extreme sensitivity to romantic interaction. Throughout the story, the narrator focuses on his late grandmother as a source of balance and stability in his unstable world. He tries to cultivate the relationship between himself and the volatile Pinky so it can become as emotionally rewarding as the nostalgia of his childhood that seems to constantly permeate his consciousness.Item Restricted The space between(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2015) Ardelean, Jayla Rae, author; Thompson, Deborah, advisor; Calderazzo, John, committee member; Huyvaert, Kathryn, committee memberAn exploration of natural and technological landscapes by examining the occupation or vacancy of spaces between loved ones, birds, and myself.Item Restricted Why I say this now(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2011) Starke, Jonathan, author; Becker, Leslee, advisor; Calderazzo, John, committee member; Prince, Eric, committee memberThis is a collection of stories and essays. There is a thematic range here. These pieces deal mainly with the way men interact in the world, how they cope with love, loneliness, disconnection, distance, death, body, and violence. Or how I cope with it.Item Open Access Work of art: a collection of stories and essays(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2005) Franck, Judea, author; Doenges, Judy, 1959-, advisor; Calderazzo, John, committee member; Callahan, Gerald N., 1946-, committee memberThis collection of work, composed over a period of three years, contains stories and essays that explore the emotional struggles of people in fictional and real-life experiences. These stories and essays are concerned with the idea of resilience -- how people and characters reshape their lives after fracturing events. It is a collection influenced by the idea of loss, but also by the hope of resurgence. It details the ways in which characters and people can be hurt, maimed, brokenhearted, and yet find a way to recover.Item Restricted Zen and the art of conquest: a southerly misadventure with Phaedrus and other essays(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2011) Moreno, Raul B., author; Sloane, Sarah, advisor; Calderazzo, John, committee member; Kodrich, Kris, committee memberAs the title suggests, this thesis comprises several works of creative nonfiction. First, "Zen and the Art of Conquest" presents an incomplete narrative, in six chapters, that draws inspiration from Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974) and other travelogues. In Chapter One, the author embarks on a road trip to Las Vegas that seems haunted by his past--that is, his Peace Corps service in Kyrgyzstan, where "the killing started" just a month ago. Chapter Two begins with a flashback from an earthquake that preceded the killing, but then moves back to the road, where the author has reached Prineville, Oregon, also a stop on Pirsig's journey. Pushing farther south, in Chapter Three, through Indian country, the author recalls childhood memories of Cathlapotle, a Chinook village described in Lewis and Clark's journals. Chapter Four profiles the author's father and grandfather, who devoted themselves to unearthing a Mayan graveyard in Guatemala. The Maya's ancestors migrated south from Asia and then Oregon, the author discovers, and this fact drives his thinking in Chapter Five. He's determined to reach Las Vegas because he wants to put questions about what happened in Kyrgyzstan to a former Peace Corps volunteer living there with his Kyrgyz wife. Chapter Five concludes with the author's arrival in Osh, the scene of the killing, and Chapter Six alternates between his approach to the Oregon-Nevada border and a village feast where Kyrgyz men butcher livestock and grill him about Amerikadan. Three essays constitute the second half of this thesis. "What Happened Yesterday in Baghdad" recounts the author's conversations with a group of Iraqi students visiting Colorado. Their wartime memories resonate with his life as a public radio producer between 2004 and 2008--a time when he assembled reports for correspondents in Baghdad and helped "voice" the words of the conflict's victims. "Exposure Time" reflects on the author's preoccupation with dying in a cycling accident, which in turn offers an entry into recollections of violence in Cartagena, Colombia, and Osh, Kyrgyzstan. The final essay, "I'd Like to Talk About the Bigger Stuff," explores the author's separation from a woman who observes, after his Peace Corps service, that he no longer has compassion for animals. This observation invites a meditation on American relationships with dogs, cats, and wildlife; the roles of dogs, goats, and horses in Kyrgyzstan; and the legacy of the Soviet Union in Central Asia.