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| author | Dylan Anthony Cecchini |
| title | Lagoon |
| abstract | In my manuscript entitled, Lagoon, I explore, in thirty-three original poems, a personal, narrative history, particularly as it is
tied with the childhood image of the lagoon along with other coastal images from the Jersey Shore. These poems represent the complexity of a passage from childhood to
adulthood, with the central poem of the project on page thirty reflecting upon astounding shame and trauma in a central rite of passage into adult sexuality that further
complicates the speaker's ability to cope with his world. Stylistically, the poems range from the short and long meditative lyric to the long narrative poem. The
manuscript is broken up into four sections, where the poems are grouped indirectly seasonally and by the speaker's experiences with his lovers, friends, family and
other intimate and non-intimate relationships. Lagoon is an attempt at the synthesis of both the deep lyric and the American narrative poem as profound influences on
the poet coming together under one manuscript with the single thread of the speaker's perceptions and feelings toward this landscape of childhood and its deep impact
on his present.
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| school | The Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, Drew University |
| degree | M.F.A. (2015) |
| advisors | Jane Mead
Michael Waters |
| full text | DACecchini.pdf - requires Drew uLogin |
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