“Inwombed” Expressions of Anxiety: Myth, Humor, and the Absurd
Abstract
Inwombed is a collection of poems created from a sort of dream journal which was kept for some sixty odd days during a time of deep anxiety and turmoil in my life. Anxiety which was reaching its peak seven and a half years after conceiving and raising identical triplet daughters and ten years after getting married. The collection is inspired by the dreams and the images they conjured which came about while struggling with the anxiety of parenthood and spousehood. Although the anxiety of house and home was the germ of the collection the poems were also written at a time of peak anxiety over many things outside the home as well. Things like climate change seemingly going largely ignored and downplayed, war and political turmoil breaking out locally and abroad, the seeming decline of civil rights, democracy, and freedom in general. Not to mention the residue of anxiety persistent on the tail end of a global pandemic. The book then also came to be about how out of control one feels living in contemporary society and the anxiety and fear that comes along with it.
Subject Area
Creative writing|Fine arts
Recommended Citation
Taylor, Jonathan, "“Inwombed” Expressions of Anxiety: Myth, Humor, and the Absurd" (2024). ETD Collection for University of Texas, El Paso. AAI31295431.
https://scholarworks.utep.edu/dissertations/AAI31295431