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Bodily Compositions: The Disability Poetics of Karen Fiser and Laurie Clements Lambeth
Academic journal article from Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Vol. 5, No. 2
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The article focuses on the poetry of Karen Fiser and Laurie Clements Lambeth to examine how poetic language and form are shaped by both the poets' bodies and the way that their bodies relate to their environments, to spaces and institutions both private and public. Poetic language allows these writers to articulate the layered, enigmatic relationship between the particularity of somatic "feelings"-the body's experience of itself and the spaces and objects with which it interacts-and emotional expression. Both poets develop an aesthetics that reflects the body's particularity and that explores the tension between the limits and possibilities of communication in speaking about emotion and …
