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Love is a series of vaultings

dc.contributor.authorGrabowski, River, author
dc.contributor.authorCandelaria-Fletcher, Harrison, advisor
dc.contributor.authorBeachy-Quick, Dan, committee member
dc.contributor.authorPayne, Sarah, committee member
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-09T20:51:06Z
dc.date.available2026-08-16
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThis creative writing MFA thesis, Love is a Series of Vaultings, is a book-length collection of poems and essays that seek transformation by resacralizing the speaker's queer body and metabolizing the violence of white, evangelical Christianity toward a more ethical, ecological ritual consciousness. The writing is hybrid in medium and genre, which speaks to its attempts to defamiliarize easy boundaries of time and space, prose and poetry, text and image, body and world, nature and culture, spiritual and material, and male and female, ultimately disrupting an organizing hegemony of dualism that categorizes, oppresses, and generally tells an uninteresting story of the world. The method of the book's inquiry is an essay, in the old French etymological sense—an assai—an attempt, an experiment, a verb: how might the queer body recover from ecstatic wounds, illness, and isolation? The book is this speaker's attempt to become embodied in the world, to seek an alternate sense of spirituality that will satisfy the highest frequency of their (be)longing.
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dc.format.mediummasters theses
dc.identifierGrabowski_colostate_0053N_18402.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/239116
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartof2020-
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dc.rights.accessEmbargo expires: 08/16/2026.
dc.subjecthybrid
dc.subjectqueer
dc.subjectliterature
dc.subjectessay
dc.titleLove is a series of vaultings
dc.typeText
dcterms.embargo.expires2026-08-16
dcterms.embargo.terms2026-08-16
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thesis.degree.disciplineEnglish
thesis.degree.grantorColorado State University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)

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