Masters Thesis

A sort of homecoming

A Sort of Homecoming is a collection of poetry that started incubating as I realized the freedom and inspiration I felt writing ekphrastic poems. I love going to museums and I love travelling and I thought, why don’t I make that into a project? Why don’t I get out of my head and my usual narration for a bit? Turns out we are slaves to our muses and often end up telling the same story no matter how varied the (intended) subject or how far from “home” we are. I haven’t yet decided if this is a blessing or a curse. In the span of about four months I found myself in rural Ballarat, Australia, almost as far away from home as I could get, in Los Angeles studying some of my heroes like Kara Walker and Jean-Michel Basquiat, in Miami studying art from the transatlantic diaspora, then all the way back over the Atlantic to London, to encounter “home” once again. I ended the collection making a return trip back “home,” to the States, taking a final inventory of all I’d chosen to ingest. Copyrighting these works would be impossible on this scale, for these artists, so my intention was to make a collection of poetry that could also stand on its own, without accompanying images. Still, please go forth and Google! It’s more fun that way.

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