Date of Award
2024-05-01
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
Creative Writing
Advisor(s)
Andrea Cote-Botero
Abstract
An Uprooted Orchid, touches on the power of words as medicine to navigate grief or illnesses that have disrupted home and family life. The speaker processes her father’s health complications from pulmonary disease and her own diagnosis – aggressive breast cancer. This collection of poetry is about feeling the emotional and physical weight of losing – a loved one, a breast – but also about celebrating family and “the magic in ordinary/ bits and fragments of everyday life”. The poems serve as an ode to facing difficult journeys, “Dear Warrior, you are more than/ what happens to your body on the outside”, while acknowledging every obstacle in the climb away from the gray area of grief, “Even a crystal doesn’t do much in the dark/ until you hold her up to the beauty of day/ and watch her refract the light/ rainbow after rainbow”.
Language
en
Provenance
Received from ProQuest
Copyright Date
2024-05
File Size
126 p.
File Format
application/pdf
Rights Holder
Sarah Joy Thompson
Recommended Citation
Thompson, Sarah Joy, "An Uprooted Orchid" (2024). Open Access Theses & Dissertations. 4156.
https://scholarworks.utep.edu/open_etd/4156