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Item Restricted Sung ritual(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) Culbertson, C., author; Beachy-Quick, Dan, advisor; Steensen, Sasha, advisor; Lehene, Marius, committee memberSung Ritual is an ecstatic record of the queer, neurodivergent poet's coming-to, as if waking to the present from an oracular dream made up of repeated memories of the past. Part confessional and part self-reckoning, this collection tries to account for the facts of one's life and how those facts come to shape present-day relationships with the world and others. The tradition of the ode after Whitman becomes a ritual in which the poems form a chorus resolved by taking-up of the proper pronoun "I" only in the collection's final pages. The song there formed anticipates future(s) wisdom informs cannot be imagined without the poet's attending to living's antecedents.