Sociology, phenomenology, and surrender-and-catch

Wolff, Kurt H.

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“…Wolff was a phenomenologist who developed a method called surrender and catch that struck me as a uniquely suited approach to arts-based research in general and poetic inquiry in particular. Wolff (1972) defines his two key terms as follows:…”

Section: Poetic Inquiry 2007-2012mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As with other phenomenological research methods, Wolff (1972) issues a clear challenge for researchers to enter into a research question and/or site with "total involvement," "suspension of received notion," and to encounter whatever is there "in its originality, its itself-ness" (p. 453). What one "catches" or "conceives" as a result "cannot be anticipated" and may indeed emerge as "a poem, a painting .…”

Section: Poetic Inquiry 2007-2012mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Poetic Inquiry, 2007-2012

Prendergast

2015

Qualitative Inquiry

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A found poem created from a selection of poems published in indexed peer-reviewed social science journals between 2007 and 2012 is presented. The excerpts from poems were drawn from a 595-page annotated bibliographic update of a bibliography on this poetic inquiry in the social sciences that was completed in 2007. Excerpts from poems were gathered from this updated compilation via Kurt H. Wolff’s phenomenological surrender and catch method. Surrendering to the process of engaging with the bibliography allowed me to catch phrases, lines, and verses. Excerpts were chosen based on aesthetic criteria such as imagery, metaphor, truthfulness, affective impact, and so on. These excerpts were then grouped according to various voice forms and topics covered. A found poem created from excerpts from 30 poems focuses on Vox Poetica, one of five new voices discovered that are employed in recent poetic inquiry practice.

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Section: Poetic Inquiry 2007-2012mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Poetic Inquiry 2007-2012mentioning

confidence: 99%

Poetic Inquiry, 2007-2012

Prendergast

2015

Qualitative Inquiry

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“…Adrian's poem reminds me of the phenomenological moment of being present; being drawn towards particular words, and then taking these up, using them again, to create something new. His poem reminds me of both lyric inquiry (Neilsen, 2008), and Wolff's phenomenological surrender and catch (Prendergast, 2015;Wolff, 1972). Neilsen's lyric inquiry involves a listening to one another, whereby one experiences "sensory immersion and resonance" from which writing is created (Neilsen, 2008, p. 96).…”

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confidence: 98%

Pull of Words

Penwarden

Schoone

2021

Art/Research International

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Poetic inquirers immerse themselves in the flow of life, listening for art in the ordinary world, offering a response through voice and written word. The biennial International Symposium on Poetic Inquiry, which draws poet-scholars from across disciplines and the world, showcases the artful use of poetry in research as a method of inquiry. In this article, the Fifth Symposium on Poetic Inquiry is relived by two attendees who interrogate found poems they each created from presentations and performances. The poems are brought together as a means of researching each author’s respective approaches to creating found poetry. In this article, the authors converse about their methodological frameworks: phenomenology and metaphor/ narrative. Central to this dialogue is how the found poem is listened for, and how artful responses are made to the pull of words. The authors conclude by considering the ethics of rehousing others’ words and the challenge this inquiry presents to our own private sense-making in academic conferences.

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“…If we are lucky, we catch such moments of lived experience and poetic inspiration, their almost magical synchronicity of word, time, essence and being. Like sociologist Kurt Wolff's (1972) phenomenological surrender and catch method, we cannot predict or anticipate what will arise; rather, from acute attentiveness and presence in the world (surrender), poems arise and speak themselves (catch) in synchronous flow with the world around us. As Monica Prendergast (2015) notes, this method is "uniquely suited to arts-based research in general and poetic inquiry in particular" (p. 682).…”

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confidence: 99%

Tracing Paths of Love through Poetic Inquiry

Borhani

2022

Art/Research International

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In response to this call for poetic inquiries that speak the dynamism of an animate pluriverse, that honor what we hold sacred, and that might serve as medicine during these cataclysmic times, these poems-as-research offer a meditation on the power of love in myriad forms, to teach, inspire and sustain us. Weaving mythopoetic thought and imagery amongst everyday events and mundane realities, love surfaces as core currency. Evoking the wonder of children, and the love and care of teachers, mentors, and friends, these poems sing love in the world, and love of the world—the animated natural world, and the written wor(d)ld as expressive animation of what we love. Specifically, this poetic inquiry traces three synchronous veins of love in my life as they weave through my writing-as-research: love for my daughters (and the intractable wonder of childhood); love for a beloved teacher and mentor, American poet Robert Bly; and love as secular-spiritual awakening, the beating heart of social justice and personal/political activism. Tracings of love in our lives, etched and echoed through poetry as inquiry.

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Sociology, phenomenology, and surrender-and-catch

Cited by 11 publications

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Poetic Inquiry, 2007-2012

Poetic Inquiry, 2007-2012

Pull of Words

Tracing Paths of Love through Poetic Inquiry

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