Theses and Dissertations Collection

“Marvelous, So Marvelous: Essays, Instructions, Obituaries,” is a collection of creative nonfiction about leaking and exploding, birth and death, birds and art and monsters. The project implicates the reader through shifting subjectivities and generic indiscretion, engaging Freud and cat litter, Anne Carson and two-headed calves, Bukowski and the sublime, in an exploration of the inescapable porosity of humanness. The collection’s eight essays and one obituary invite conversation, disorientation, and identification around the indistinct edges that fail to fully separate life and death, the sacred and the profane, and the subject and the object.