Materializing the Punctum

Maarhuis, Patricia L.; Sameshima, Pauline

doi:10.1007/978-94-6300-316-2_21

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“…In this sense, poetic inquiry, as a synthesis of narrative, poetic, and critical discourse, relies on a sophisticated balance between the metaphorical and experimental nature of language and the more limited, but, nonetheless open-ended, horizons afforded by interpretation (Burford, 2018). As such, then, the research genre allows for a particular kind of world-making where "creative" or fictional world creation blends with the scholarly academic genre of critique that analyzes the world projected by a specific text (Maarhuis & Sameshima, 2016;Quinn-Hall, 2016).…”

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“…By drawing on poetry and literature related to the nature, form, and function of poetic inquiry (Colby & Bodily, 2018;Dobson, 2010;Maarhuis & Sameshima, 2016), specific poems about the current pandemic are used to illustrate how the dynamic interplay between the fictive and real within poetry can provide consolation and allow us to shape more authentic ways of being. Poetry offers a means of accessing other realms of experience, that are as equally real and undifferentiated as any other reality that we can use words to describe or conjure (Leggo, 2010), even in a modern world that has itself become uncanny, barely recognizable, perhaps itself a fictionalized mirror for our own anemic modern souls.…”

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How Can My Poem Be True?

Hoben¹

2021

Art/Research International

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How can a poem be true? This autoethnographic study uses poetic inquiry to explore the boundaries between fiction and reality within poetic experience. A series of poems composed during, and about, the current COVID-19 pandemic, provides a means of understanding the experience of having one’s everyday reality overturned by crisis. A central theme of the author’s poems and accompanying reflections is how art can be used to explore psychological experiences, such as melancholia and depression, and, in turn how the experience of suffering can be used to facilitate artistic expression. Using poetic inquiry, the author examines the complex interplay between speaker and authorial intention, fiction and truth, text and the performance of writing, reading, and poetic interpretation.

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