Like Eve, wanting beets instead of apples /

Abstract

Laura M. Rupeka's (Woodward) thesis, Like Eve, Wanting Beets Instead of Apples, is a creative thesis- a book ofpoems and a short story- within which she explores a variety ofconditions ofhomelessness. Homelessness not in its most apparent form, but in all the numerous ways in which people have no real home; ways that examine the loss ofindividual's (or groups of individuals) spirit, purpose and place, and how those losses weigh upon human relationships and culture. In the poems she makes connections between nature and culture; history; language and art. She explains the creative process that informs the act ofwriting and her poetic influences. She examines other author's explorations in relation to nature and culture and the problematic issues that are central to those relationships.