Prufer, Kevin2019-11-192019-11-19May 20192019-05May 2019https://hdl.handle.net/10657/5452Tropical Depression is a poetry collection that combines a voice-driven sensibility with avant-garde sonic experiments to scrutinize slippages in language. Ranging from colloquial to highly stylized, it celebrates the range of American vernaculars. Throughout Tropical Depression, humor is a discursive strategy to illustrate the speaker’s private, associative interiority and her obligations as a citizen in a broader cultural context.application/pdfengThe author of this work is the copyright owner. UH Libraries and the Texas Digital Library have their permission to store and provide access to this work. Further transmission, reproduction, or presentation of this work is prohibited except with permission of the author(s).PoetryWomenHumor2019-11-19Thesisborn digital