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HAND ME DOWN

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Hand Me Down is a collection of poetry and visual art by Meg Whelan. This thesis examines how trauma is an act of fracture and how poesis is an act of holding the pieces. This work thematically explores grief, challenges religion, documents sexual violence, reckons with intergenerational abuse, witnesses queer discovery, and upholds a healing love. Hand Me Down is an effort to understand what has been handed down to the poet, how she has been handed down, what her hands might do with what they hold, and what she might hand down in her lifetime.

Source: UKnowledge (University of Kentucky)

DOI: 10.13023/etd.2025.139

Author: Whelan, Meg

Institution: University of Kentucky

Language: English

Topic: Artistic and Creative Research

Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W6903781693

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