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Abstract
A cross-genre manuscript, Alone Together explores the relationship between individuality and community, genre expectations and a postmodern awareness, even distrust, of literary production. The poems and prose texts invoke a wide variety of distinct personae, both historical and imaginary, charting a course through love, grief, music, storytelling, and desire. In three obsessive poetic sequences, Alone Together reveals its own artificeit shows its workonly to return to art again as a social construction, private explorations redesigned as a collective.One Take After Another: 50 Notes on Alone Together examines the phenomenology of writing and bestows prominence to the experiential impact and life appeal of this dissertations compositionthe many series of events in and outside of language that so often lie hidden, for the general reader, in plain sight.