Hedge Days-- 1981-1994

Abstract

This thesis is a collection of thirty-two poems preceded by an introduction. The introduction explores my use of myth to craft a dynamic, evocative style; it also analyzes my ""mythmaking"" as a way of creating distance between me and the autobiographical material in my writing. The collection documents fundamental experiences of childhood, real and imagined, and draws on various mythic traditions as a loose framework; these poems are an attempt to capture those strange and crucial moments when a child's consciousness crosses into the realm of dream and symbol.