The Deeper Beats of the Heart: Poetry, Platforms and the Collapse of the Public Sphere

• Autores: Sarah Clancy, Cornelia Gräbner
• Localización: Comparative Critical Studies, ISSN 1744-1854, ISSN-e 1750-0109, Vol. 21, Nº. 2-3, 2024 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Against the Grain: Dissent, Opposition and La parola contraria in Literature, Politics and the Arts), págs. 311-326
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Poet Sarah Clancy and cultural analyst Cornelia Gräbner explore themes that lie at the heart of contemporary poetry as an emancipatory, positioned form of speech; specifically, poems written by Sarah Clancy from within Ireland’s anti-austerity movement, as part of the campaign to legalize abortion and from a positioning within constellations of transatlantic solidarity. Clancy and Gräbner explore the contestatory and propositional traction of poems that are created and spoken from within social movements and campaigns, often as a contribution to community-building; and poems that intentionally take the listener / reader out of their comfort zone, so as to expose and counter acquiescence to the status quo. In both cases, poetry-as-speech acts as a counterforce to the silent and silencing affects of consolation and of shame.