Such Is The Heart Circling Home

Degree awarded: M.F.A. Literature. American UniversityLike Aeschylus, the first Greek tragedian to expand the number of characters in a play to allow for conflict, <italic>Such is the Heart Circling Home</italic> charts the lives of those who both run headlong into conflict or observe it quietly from the sidelines. Within these pages, survival is surveyed as an art and the survivors set into two groups: those who stay vigilantly tethered to safety and don't die and those who understand vulnerability as the antidote to death and come back to life. <italic>Such is the Heart Circling Home</italic> pairs the erotic draw and unfathomable violence of the world, conflates faith with submission, maps the scope of loss and explores the struggle to come to terms with identity after one has been disquieted or uprooted. <italic>Such is the Heart Circling Home</italic> paints the miracle of darkness -- affirming that that is the way.Made available in DSpace on 2013-05-09T14:12:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Yearwood_american_0008N_10416display.pdf: 417933 bytes, checksum: 7617e826a17957c5e248fc96c92ef29e (MD5