Siel Ju
English (Literature and Creative Writing)
Poetry: “alice, eaten,” 2005

A graduate of USC’s Creative Writing program, Ju evokes the darkness at the edge of Carroll’s imaginative and playful wordscape. For all of the light-hearted adventures Alice encounters, the story revolves around a young girl in a foreign world, beset by terrifying forces beyond her control. Seen here are two out of a suite of twelve poems, the titles of which are taken directly from chapters four and seven of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.