Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Retrospective Theses and Dissertations Dissertations 1999 Making company of darkness Joshua Evan Borgmann Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd Part of the Creative Writing Commons, and the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Borgmann, Joshua Evan, "Making company of darkness " (1999). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. 7097. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/7097 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Dissertations at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Retrospective Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Making company of darkness by Joshua Evan Borgmann . A thesis submitted to the graduate faculty in partialfulfillment of the requirements for the degreeof MASTER OFARTS Major: English (Creative Writing) Major Professor: Neal Bowers Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 1999 11 Graduate College Iowa State University This is to certify that the Master's thesis of Joshua Evan Borgmann has met the requirements ofIowa State University Major Professor For the Major Program For the Graduate College m TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INSALUBRIOUS BIFURCATIONS 1 Family Portrait at 23 2 Family 3 Family Spirit 4 Insalubrious Bifurcation ofthe Post-Nuclear Family Schema 5 Christmas Eves 6 Holiday Edge 7 Food, Football, Family 9 Wal-Mart Christian 11 Devil's Advocate 13 Religion in Ice 14 Deicide 15 Suicide Poem # 23 16 Suicide Poem # 24 17 23 to 2 18 Sadistic Auto-Masochistic Persecution 19 Random SelfIndulgent Shit 20 High School High Via the Lost Highway 23 Forgetting '87 24 Thirteen 25 Absence ofLight 26 Windows 27 The House 28 Old Woman 29 In the Night 30 Goathoms 31 H.