abstract

“Baltimore Montage: A Love Story” is a collection of poetry that has, as its grounding, overarching theme, the failures—mundane and remarkable alike—of a woman in the postfeminist, postmodern literary tradition. The poems acknowledge the missteps of a character, The Hapless Spinster, who emerges here and there, and the sublimated, tamped-down wildness of the speaker who wants nothing more than to be unlocked. The dichotomy between exposition and fragmentation is the prevailing tension in each of the pieces. All of this writing was created and/or revised since 2004 in the Hopkins M.A. in Writing Program. This thesis is submitted to The Johns Hopkins University in conformance with the requirements for the Master of Arts in Writing.

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all poems in this collection © Salimah J. Perkins 2006.