Painted Ponies: Essays on Memory and Loss
Issue Date
2008-12-30Author
Klayder, Mary
Publisher
University of Kansas
Format
202 pages
Type
Dissertation
Degree Level
Ph.D.
Discipline
English
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This collection explores the spiral nature of memory as it examines the way loss and one's reactions to loss repeat themselves in new guises and new contexts. Interspersing poetry with essays of memoir, Klayder examines her own growth as she experiences the losses and re-envisions her own life and the lives of those she knew and lost. Focusing on the subjects such death, illness, travel, and literature, the essays form a spiral beginning with Klayder's own childhood and culminating with her recognition of her own mortality.
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