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Item Restricted Eldest daughter(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) Emerson, Anna, author; Candelaria Fletcher, Harrison, advisor; Shutters, Lynn, committee member; Gerst, Katie, committee memberEldest Daughter is a memoir in essays that explores the boundaries of home and self, braiding together threads of the Midwest, horses, grief, illness, water, and family. By structuring itself into three "waves," Eldest Daughter underscores the currents of mourning, loss, and becoming. When we meet the narrator, she is stuck in the middle of a Midwestern flood, trying to wrangle horses from the mud as her mother seeks to save their home from destruction. This starts the work off with the explicit statement that this is a narrator at a crossroads—or perhaps a series of them—as we watch her navigate the intersections of grief and family, femininity and masculinity, horse and human, and landscapes of both the Midwest and Colorado. By the end of Eldest Daughter, the narrator has a better understanding of the contours of her grief, anger, and role as the eldest daughter. As such, the pieces in Eldest Daughter attempt to answer, in sixteen pieces and just over two hundred pages, questions of: How do I grieve loss? How can I attempt to name the unsaid, to give it life and depth? How and where do I feel at home? Or, more specifically, how, and where, do I feel like myself?Item Restricted It's a long way from your heart(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2022) Genova, Jonnie, author; Candelaria Fletcher, Harrison, advisor; Doe, Sue, committee member; Chien, Claire, committee member"It's a Long Way from Your Heart" is a collection of twenty essays and thirteen original photographs exploring uncertainty, healing, and place. Situated in Wyoming, California, and Colorado, the west serves both as grounding and symbol for disorder and unpredictability. As the narrator grapples with unseen forces and disruption, she considers identity within the context of place while also exploring inheritance, masculine and feminine strength, and what endures after chaos. Through nonfiction forms including personal essays, braided essays, collage, hermit crab, flash, and one micro (one hundred word) essay, the collection considers how to navigate precariousness and upheaval while holding tightly to what matters most.Item Restricted Let light eat the spine and Speaker for bones(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2019) Weber, Kelly, author; Steensen, Sasha, advisor; Candelaria Fletcher, Harrison, advisor; Beachy-Quick, Dan, committee member; Lehene, Marius, committee memberMy multi-part thesis, Let Light Eat the Spine and Speaker for Bones, reflect different methods of creating lyric corporality and different manifestations of my concern with vulnerability. The poetry portion considers the body as a site of connection between chronic illness and the Anthropocene, using poetry's sonic and imagistic qualities to produce a bodily response in the reader that's an alternative to the harmful language of the contract and the law. It is one book-length poem made of several smaller poems, a body of text tearing itself apart. By contrast, the creative nonfiction portion explores a constellation of concerns around gaze and bodily exposure in several stand-alone essays. Both manuscripts center a body-driven ecopoetics of thought and feeling.Item Restricted Paradise(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2022) Moening, Mike, author; Candelaria Fletcher, Harrison, advisor; Levy, EJ, committee member; Opsal, Tara, committee memberParadise is a collection of creative nonfiction essays, fragments, and vignettes that explore addiction, the process of recovery, and most importantly, what it means to be oneself. Focusing less on the traditional grittiness of an addiction memoir and instead on narratives, this collection seeks to discover who is really in charge of one's own story, if anyone is at all. The memoir leads the narrator to question whether he has ever been present in his own life. Beginning as an autoethnography of sorts, exploring life as an addict and then a former addict, the narrator moves to question what it means to be in control of one's own life.Item Restricted This sky, over everything(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2019) Nelson, Cherie, author; Candelaria Fletcher, Harrison, advisor; Thompson, Deborah, committee member; MacDonald, Bradley, committee member"This Sky, Over Everything," is a collection of creative nonfiction essays that circle around grief and the aftermath of loss. Using the over-arching metaphors of constellation, navigation, and sacred texts, the eleven pieces within this collection focus on the narrator's loss of a childlike faith system as well as the relationships and certainty this system provided. Through braided, collage, and mosaic essays, as well as flash nonfiction, the collection moves toward renegotiation as the narrator attempts to navigate the word, her faith, and relationships with others.Item Restricted Turnskin(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2021) Bright, Hannah, author; Candelaria Fletcher, Harrison, advisor; Beachy-Quick, Dan, committee member; Harrow, Del, committee member; Bunn, David, committee memberTurnskin is a monstrous exploration in human ferality. A true fairytale about a woman or a wolf or a girl nosing toward the wilderness within the self, it wonders at how to be both human and animal, imagined and real, alive all the way and all at once. Through tender reconciliation of the child and adult self, the project essays toward truth through dream, childscape imagination, the faerie, and the speculative. The story roots in hybridity—of self, genre, form, truth, time and word; and seeks toward Metanonfiction—an inquiry of what a human body can do with a story, and what story does in turn with the mammalian body. Hybridity is enacted in the intersections between poetry and prose at the level of the letter, word, sentence, paragraph, piece, and cohesive sensibility; in pressing the boundaries between what is 'real' and 'fantastical' by blending the conventions and tropes of fairytale and memoir; and in pushing against narrative time and logic through mutual influence of the past, present, and future on one another. Informed by studies in animal science, anthropology, fairytales, poetry, art, and creative nonfiction, the project seeks to expose the sinister implications of what we understand to be real/fixed and imagined/fluid and aspires to converse with the work of Angela Carter, Jenny Boully, Maggie Nelson, Sarah Shun Lien Bynum, Helen Oyeyemi and Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas, amongst others. In wondering what it means to be a human animal that can both construct our experience out of story and also live it in the nostrils, nerves, pupils of the felt sense, this true story investigates how to unstory—at the level of the tooth, the feather, the bone, what it means to actually makebelieve.