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[email protected] FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES OF THE OUT OF STYLE By JEFF HIPSHER A Thesis submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts 2016 Jeff Hipsher defended this thesis on April 15, 2016. The members of the supervisory committee were: David Kirby Professor Directing Thesis Barbara Hamby Committee Member Andrew Epstein Committee Member The Graduate School has verified and approved the above-named committee members, and certifies that the thesis has been approved in accordance with university requirements. ii for Sarah iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Poems in this manuscript previously appeared in or are forthcoming from The Boston Review and The Common. An early version of this manuscript was one of three finalists for the Poetry Society of America‘s 30 and Under Chapbook Fellowship. I am deeply grateful for the patience and love of my wife, Sarah Cassidy Hipsher. My parents, Paula and Everett Ison, for putting up with me. Don and Margaret Cassidy for the same. All my Hipsher, Cassidy, Ison, Garcia, and Chavez families. Much love to Timothy Donnelly, Chuch O‘Neal, Adam Day, A.H. Jerriod Avant, Mikayla Avila Vila, Yolanda Franklin, Cocoa Williams, Gary Jackson, Chris Michaels, Dan Sack, Hannah Gamble, Douglas Kearney, Nick Sturm, Jeremy Clark, Nick Sturtzel, Rob Johnson, Wendy Xu, Alexis Orgera, Michael Miles, Tristan Child, Mark Hensel, Muriel Leung, and Josh & Jessie English for their invaluable insight, guidance, support, and friendship.