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Getting It On Home: Ways of Telling the Story

Description: In this collection of poems and essays, the author demonstrates two different methods for examining the same theme: the notion of "home"—how to get there, how to remain there and bear articulate witness to the forces which drive that author to write. The introduction sets forth an explanation for the use of the specific form chosen for expression, with an analysis of the intent behind that form. In these essays and poems, the author accounts for her years on the Texas Panhandle, in Montana, an… more
Date: May 1996
Creator: Vanek, Mary
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
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[Type Written Caption]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark: Caption is from December 30, 1982, Farmington, Michigan. Type written photo caption written by Joe Clark, HBSS for the Lapeer County Press in Lapeer, Michigan. Joe had a weekly photo and poem or witticism in the Lapeer County Press that ran for maybe 15 years or more. Frank and Gladys Cooper, writers for the Press were good family friends who would drop by and pick out a pile of photos. The Cooper's created and managed the column.
Date: 1982
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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A Study of Christina Rossetti's Poems on Death

Description: Throughout her life Christina Rossetti was pursued by the thought of death. Many of her poems, especially her later poems, display her concerns about death. Her early poems show death as the destroyer of mortal things, reflecting her pessimism and her sometimes naturalistic views on life. Her death wish is sometimes associated with her thwarted desire for absolute love in the world. Her religious poems describe death as the gate to heaven or to hell, the final resting place from the pains of he… more
Date: May 1992
Creator: Yang, Okhee J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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The Life of Ben and Other Poems

Description: The Life of Ben and Other Poems consists of two sections. The first, The Life of Ben, is a series of seventeen poems about the life of a first-generation American and his family's immigration. The second section, Other Poems, includes twenty-one poems on a variety of themes.
Date: May 1987
Creator: Berecka, Alan Michael
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
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[Boy With Rifle and Accompanying Poem]

Description: Photograph of a boy with a rifle resting on his shoulders. The boy is standing on a hill above a road and a farmhouse, with fields and hills in the distance. The photograph is mounted above a poem by Joe Clark, titled "Hillbilly Memories." Narrative by Junebug Clark: This boy is the grandson, (Maybe great grandson. He was a couple years older than me), of WWI Hero Sergeant Alvin York. Photo was taken near Sgt. York's home in Jamestown, TN. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Signed by: Joe Clark, HBSS
Date: 19XX
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Country Boy with Accompanying Poem]

Description: Photograph of a young boy in a straw hat and overalls. In this image, the unidentified boy is digging at a small house set at the bottom of a hill. This image is set to the right of a poem by Joe Clark, titled "Country Boy." Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Signed by: Joe Clark, HBSS
Date: November 2, 1961
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Baby Junebug Clark with Accompanying Poem]

Description: Photograph of Junebug Clark as a baby, sitting in a high chair with his hand in his mouth. The photograph is mounted next to a poem by Joe Clark, titled "Only a Snapshot." Junebug clark was born in April 1949, but this image was dated November 1961. It is assumed this date is when Joe this piece along with the poem. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Signed by: Joe Clark, HBSS Clark PhotoFile: 4988
Date: November 22, 1961
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Woman with Accompanying Poem]

Description: Photograph of a woman smiling at the camera while wearing a nose cover and a hat. This photograph is mounted to the right of a poem by Joe Clark, titled "Clotheses for Frozen Noses."
Date: December 13, 1961
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Personal Archaeology: Poems

Description: A collection of poems focused primarily on rural America and the South, the creative writing thesis also includes material concerned with the history of Mexico, particularly Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest. The introduction combines a personal essay with critical material discussing and defining the idea of the Southern writer.
Date: May 1992
Creator: Sweeden, R. Renee
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Clip: Poet Laureate]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: November 12, 1982
Duration: 2 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Walter Crane's 'Faerie Queene']

Description: Photograph of an edition of Edmund Spenser's 'Faerie Queene' that is illustrated by Walter Crane. The book is open to an illumination and is resting on a cradle made of two wedges. The image depicts a woman on her knees in the midst of several men in armor and holding swords and shields. A short portion of writing is included below and designs decorate the border.
Date: December 4, 2013
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 33.210113 -97.148993
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

['Spenser's Faerie Queene' volumes in pile]

Description: Photograph of a set of an illuminated edition of Edmund Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene' done by Walter Crane. The six volumes are stacked, one on top of the other, in sequential order. The books are bound in a maroon leather from Morocco and have embossed golden scroll-work that decorates the spines and provides the tile.
Date: December 4, 2013
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 33.210113 -97.148993
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Walter Crane's 'Faerie Queene' illumination]

Description: Photograph of an illumination of Edmund Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene' from an edition that was illustrated by Walter Crane. The image depicts a woman on her knees in the midst of several men in armor who are holding swords and shields. A short portion of writing is included below and designs decorate the border.
Date: December 4, 2013
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 33.210113 -97.148993
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Spines of Tennyson's works]

Description: Photograph of the spines of seven books by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The majority of the books are bound in green cloth, with one in a tan material. The books are Tiresias and Other Poems, Idylls of the King, Harold, The Holy Grail & c., Becket, The Cup/The Falcon, and Gareth and Lynette. Two of the books have an anchor logo at the base of the spine, one reads Henry S. King & Co., and the other three read Macmillan & Co. All are likely the publishers of their respective books. Many of the tops and… more
Date: July 9, 2014
Creator: Tennyson, Alfred
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Dear Stranger by B. F. Maiz

Description: Copy of the B. F. Maiz book of poems entitled Dear Stranger. The poems have strong religious themes and a picture of the author is used as the front cover.
Date: 1978
Creator: Maiz, B. F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Program: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide]

Description: Program for the event For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide which was a choreopoem Ntozake Shange performed in 1980. The program contains a list of the cast, which majorly featured Irma P. Hall, Shirley McFatter, Darlene O'Hara, Regina Taylor, as well as a list of poems.
Date: 1980
Creator: Dallas Theatre Three
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Robert Frost: Poet of New England

Description: I have endeavored to show that the "gray outlook" that some of the critics have complained about in Frost's poems was well offset early in his career by a sly and subtle humor that rarely failed the poet, and by the sheer beauty of the New England background.
Date: 1941
Creator: Wells, Imogene
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Clip: Laura Bush]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 10 PM.
Date: November 21, 2001
Duration: 4 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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The Naturalist

Description: The Naturalist is a collection of poems with a critical preface. In this preface, titled "'Death is the mother of beauty': The Contemporary Elegy and the Search for the Dead," I examine contemporary alterations and manifestations of the traditional genre of elegy. I explore the idea that the contemporary mourner is aware of the need to search for meaning despite living in a world without a centrally believed mythology. This search exposes the mourner's need to remain connected to the dead and, … more
Date: August 2004
Creator: Harvell, Elizabeth A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
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