Last Resort
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The Department of English seeks to provide all university students with the skills of effective communication and critical thinking, as well as imparting knowledge of literature, creative writing, linguistics, speech and technical communication to students within and outside of the department.
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The Department of English and Speech was formed in 1939 from the merger of the Department of English and the Department of Public Speaking. In 1971 its name changed to the Department of English.
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1939-present
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- Department of English and Speech (1939-1971)
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- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (parent college)
- Department of English (predecessor, 1898-1939)
- Department of Public Speaking (predecessor, 1898-1939)
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Last Resort is a collection of poems that examines the role of the changing self in relationship to others and to the natural environment. Grounded in Midwestern landscapes, the poems combine experiences of childhood and early adulthood to explore themes of discovery and transience. Between two sections of confessional poems is a multi-genre series that documents Iowa's changing landscape and narrates the history of the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory field station. This middle section blends historical fact and imaginative speculation to illuminate the lives of early Iowa naturalists Samuel Calvin, Thomas Macbride, and Bohumil Shimek.