(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2021) Lanham, Ryan, author; Fletcher, Harrison Candelaria, advisor; Langstraat, Lisa, advisor; DiVerdi, Joseph, committee member
This book is a memoir that traces my path of healing after reaching rock bottom with an earnest suicide attempt in October 2011, one year after completing my enlistment in the Army. Each chapter, except one, begins with an italicized scene that depicts a pivotal moment of miracle, magic, synchronicity, psychic reading, or psychedelic experience. The rest of the text attempts to decode and demystify these otherworldly moments, stringing them into a sequence of events that suggests a mysterious guiding force this life.
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2021) Turner, Jess, author; Dungy, Camille T., advisor; Beachy-Quick, Dan, committee member; Harrow, Del, committee member; Fletcher, Harrison Candelaria, committee member
Winterdark House navigates the wounds and gaps left by grief—grief of the loss of a father to addiction, grief of the loss of the speaker to mental health struggles, grief of the loss of an aunt and a friend to drunk drivers. Moreover, this collection calls on memory in the hopes of answering questions of inheritance and loss. Winterdark House is very much concerned with the domestic, a house—the spaces we keep or attempt to keep. While investigating the artifacts inside of the house, the speaker, too, steps outside—turning to the natural world—where she might find more answers regarding family, mourning, and existence.
