Browsing by Author "Dungy, Camille T., advisor"

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Humans raised by humans raised by humans
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2018) Killmeyer, Sam, author; Dungy, Camille T., advisor; Cooperman, Matthew, committee member; Moseman, Eleanor, committee member
Humans Raised by Humans Raised by Humans is a collection of poems concerned with inheritance, particularly the things we inherit without knowing that emerge and unravel at unexpected times.
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Mechanisms light and miraculous
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2020) Schonning, Daniel, author; Beachy-Quick, Dan, advisor; Dungy, Camille T., advisor; Fletcher, Harrison Candelaria, committee member; Harrow, Del, committee member
Mechanisms Light and Miraculous is a work concerned with form. From abecedarians to long stretches of terza rima, to the innovated "Little Box," each poem in the collection is beholden to a set of constraints that intimately informs the direction in which it grows. These containers are all derived, in varied ways, from the alphabet and the base unit of the letter. This gesture owes its metaphysical spine to such texts as the Sefer Yetzirah, which offers—in a Jewish mystic framework—a precise and profound relationship between the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet and world that they inhabit. In all its component pieces, Mechanisms Light and Miraculous aims to apprentice its poems to the essential medium of letters, to listen to and learn from the systems and symmetries found therein. Yellowred, though similar in some respects, operates via utterly different terms. Yellowred, to borrow from the language of the work itself, is concerned with "the cold white distance between object and eye," or—perhaps more so—the distance between eye and mind, between mind and that object made anew. Before the word for "orange," it was not a color unto itself except in the imagination. Before the word for "sky" or "soul" or "self," Yellowred might posit, those things likewise did not exist—there was only the amalgamated whole. This manuscript means to understand and deconstruct those basest forms of making.
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Sedimental: a geomemoir
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2025) Tabb, Rebecca Lynn, author; Dungy, Camille T., advisor; Candelaria Fletcher, Harrison, committee member; Lajarin-Encina, Aitor, committee member
This Creative Nonfiction MFA Thesis is a book-length work comprised of two essays which are modeled after the process of sandstone formation. The work covers the first two of four sedimentary phases, Erosion and Transportation, using sedimentation to understand the limits and impossibilities of preserving memory. The writer, also a climber and painter, uses the sandstone formations around Horsetooth Reservoir, where they love climbing, as an entry point for grief, eventually exploring what it means to construct a more ecologically-centered life experience. The work is hybrid-genre, including paintings, and photographs from the writer's father, speaking to the aesthetics of geomemoir, visual collage, and, more broadly, the intangibility of grief. The essays, Erosion and Transportation, are the writer's attempt to understand what preserving love and life means, how they got to be where they are, and, principally, who has influenced their journey.
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The damselfish year
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2021) Osborne, Jordan, author; Dungy, Camille T., advisor; Beachy-Quick, Dan, committee member; Bunn, David, committee member
This collection of poetry centers on exploring the relationship an individual has with their body and how it can be changed by the trauma of sexual violence. By refracting the self or creating a mask to obscure the self via the motif of the mermaid, the speaker of these poems endeavors to find a way to both distance herself from the trauma she has endured and bring herself closer to it in a less painful way. By doing so, the speaker is able to become a multiplicity in which the boundaries between Self and Other are blurred; pronouns that normally differentiate between actors and recipients, between individual bodies and beings, are confused and worn down by the breaking of boundaries that occurs during a violent encounter. The collection also considers questions of guilt, shame, and responsibility—incorporating figures such Mary I of England to create a space of haunting as a way to understand one's relationship to themselves and their decisions, particularly the ways in which they have been harmful to others. Other adjacent concerns here include victim blaming, violent family dynamics, ocean acidification and plastic refuse, and sex trafficking on porn websites. The collection also includes a series of loosely-structured sonnets centered on the Tarot, which is used to explore ideas of fate in relation to violence and violent histories both personal and societal. Throughout, questions of meaning and intention are brought to bear in a bodily way with the hope of asking readers to more carefully attend to how they are both liable for the perpetuation of sexual violence and—potentially—victims of it.
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The tender organs
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2023) Janecek, Carolyn Eugenia, author; Dungy, Camille T., advisor; Cooperman, Matthew, advisor; McShane, Katie, committee member
The Tender Organs is an ecopoetic coming-of-age narrative that explores embodiment and inheritance. Taking on hybrid forms, these poems reach beyond the binaries of male and female, human and animal, history and present, visibility and invisibility. Each section situates itself in a different time of the speaker's life: grappling with puberty and cultural miscommunication as a dual citizen; grieving one's friend and mentor; investigating the medicalizing, patriarchal gaze of U.S. healthcare; and finally, exploring the possibilities of rapture and relationships outside of the societal binaries.
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Winterdark house
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2021) Turner, Jess, author; Dungy, Camille T., advisor; Beachy-Quick, Dan, committee member; Harrow, Del, committee member; Fletcher, Harrison Candelaria, committee member
Winterdark House navigates the wounds and gaps left by grief—grief of the loss of a father to addiction, grief of the loss of the speaker to mental health struggles, grief of the loss of an aunt and a friend to drunk drivers. Moreover, this collection calls on memory in the hopes of answering questions of inheritance and loss. Winterdark House is very much concerned with the domestic, a house—the spaces we keep or attempt to keep. While investigating the artifacts inside of the house, the speaker, too, steps outside—turning to the natural world—where she might find more answers regarding family, mourning, and existence.