Culbertson, C., authorBeachy-Quick, Dan, advisorSteensen, Sasha, advisorLehene, Marius, committee member2024-09-092026-08-162024https://hdl.handle.net/10217/239137Sung 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.born digitalmasters thesesengCopyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.free versepoetryexperimentalWhitmanpoemsTextEmbargo expires: 08/16/2026.