Forrester, Amanda2018-07-182018-07-182018-06-14http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11868/530Resurrection: (noun) the state of one risen from the dead Resurrection is a series of poems depicting the tribulations, deaths, or causes of ruin that girls and women can experience and rising up under suffering, or resurrecting from ruin. It’s the recognition, reconciliation, and recovery from trauma. Beginning with I. First Death, poems are concerned with childhood, childhood sexual trauma, incest, and rape. II. New Ways to Die comprises of poems concerned with marriage, traditions, and breaking free from them, or dying to them. III. Resurrection contains poems that celebrate life after trauma and issues that continue throughout recovery, which allow survivors to move forward.en-USPoetryWomenTraumaThesis