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Collier, Michael Price, Anne Michelle Digital Repository at the University of Maryland University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) English Language and Literature 2016-06-22T06:23:13Z 2016-06-22T06:23:13Z 2016 https://doi.org/10.13016/M22Z19 http://hdl.handle.net/1903/18438 Landfall considers the arbitrariness of our attachments to both people and places, while at the same time marveling at the inevitability and necessity of those attachments. The importance of place in these poems, most prominently that of southern Louisiana, is pervasive, and the insistent description of landscape becomes inextricable from an interrogation of personal and familial relationships. The power of such bonds seems to defy any satisfactory explanation, but by drawing on personal narrative as well as on the natural world, these poems begin, cautiously and in fragments, to approach and confront that power. en Landfall Thesis Creative writing Poetry open.access