The Body Full of Hell

The thesis is a collection of poems that explore the effects of wartime service on personal and political relationships. The style and form can loosely be described as an obscene post-modern surrealist verse play. I am drawing on the affective qualities of Jean Genet's wounding theater in order to produce negative and disturbing affects in the reader. The themes and content are drawn from autobiographical material, dream sequences, and existing texts such as Zelda Fitzgerald's correspondance with F. Scott Fitzgerald.