Instincts of My Own

dc.contributor.author	Weber, Michael Ryan
dc.date.accessioned	2017-08-07T14:00:47Z
dc.date.available	2017-08-07T14:00:47Z
dc.date.issued	2017-01-05
dc.description.abstract	Instincts of My Own explores how family, friendship, and love irrefutably shape the present-day perception of self. The poems wind in and out of actual and imagined space, which is determined by the demands and restrictions that are repelled or submitted to. In 72 pages, the reader is taken from a crab apple orchard in upstate New York to the replica Trojan Horse in Troy, Turkey; from adolescence to adulthood, from first love to first love-making to first heartbreak, from familial bliss to familial loss, and ending in a place somewhere between optimistic trajectory and the fear of no more firsts. In the tradition of bildungsroman, the manuscript exposes the constant struggle between masculine bravado and unabashed sentimentality. Instinct of My Own demonstrates impulses toward storytelling, musicality, colorful imagery and lyricism, as the collection attempts to convey the human spirit by earnestly exploring the learned instincts of a single human.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11868/154
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa
dc.subject	Poetry	en_US
dc.subject	Bildungsroman	en_US
dc.title	Instincts of My Own	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US

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