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Sustaining Lamentation for Military Moral Injury: Witness Poetry that Bears the Traces of Extremity
Witness poetry offers unique ways to recognize and lament the wounds of war. Poet Carolyn Forché defines poems of witness as those that “bear the trace of extremity within them, and they are, as such, evidence of what occurred” (1993, p. 30). Witness poetry, written in response to and in conditions of extremity (utmost suffering and intense struggle), can help recognize and lament the grievous losses of moral injury in ways no other genre of literature can. Leaders in faith communities can draw upon witness poetry to recognize war-related losses and to facilitate lamentation with the expectation of finding ways to live with moral injury in the context of small groups of military service members, veterans, and their families.
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With the witnesses : poetry, compassion, and claimed experience
\"Trauma theory dominates contemporary ideas about ethical response to suffering. Yet, trauma theory, as it has been adopted by literary and cultural studies, has harmful effects. In With the Witnesses, Dale Tracy argues that poetry's compassionate strategies offer an alternative approach to engaging not only suffering in art but suffering in general. Emphasizing inaccessible histories, unspeakable suffering, and unconscious witnessing, trauma theory leads readers to claim others' suffering through empathic identification. Understood through trauma theory, witness poetry--poetry responding to social suffering--appears to make traumatic traces contagiously available to readers. With the Witnesses interrogates this metaphoric logic in which readers identify with a speaker, placing themselves into the position of witness. Instead, Tracy finds that witness poems follow a metonymic logic: contiguity rather than substitution, nearness rather than likeness, and waiting in relationship rather than claiming understanding. Compassion means feeling with--not as--another. Poems responding to diverse national and transnational contexts of atrocity, conflict, and marginalization guide With the Witnesses outside of existing frameworks into compassionate response to suffering. With the Witnesses follows each poem as a unique theory of compassion and arrives at a place where a witness can stand with those who suffer without standing in for them.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Toward a Practical Definition of Theopoetical Poetry
\"Theopoetics\" is a term that refers loosely to the aesthetic theories and poetics of using poetry to regain participatory access to the divine. Though the exact definition of theopoetics is somewhat contested, there seems to be overall agreement within the field defined by the term that it has something to do with recovering the experience of the presence of God as a poetic complement to theological rigor. What remains elusive, however, is a practical definition of theopoetical poetry: how would we recognize a theopoetical poem when we saw one? This article moves toward clarity on all three of these questions.
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From agent to spectator : witnessing the aftermath in ancient Greek epic and tragedy
\"We tend to associate the act of witnessing with bystanders who have not played an active role in the events that they are watching. The present monograph considers characters from Homer's Iliad and Greek tragedy that are looking on and reacting (in word, deed, or both) to their own actions. It closely examines those scenes in which they are put in the position of a spectator, witnessing the aftermath of their deed(s)\"--Provided by publisher.
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How Do Quilts Become Missing?
The maker embroidered the names and dates of different red schoolhouses that she found as she and Barbara's grandfather took Sunday drives in the country.
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