Poetry, Poetic Inquiry and Rwanda: Engaging with the Lives of Others by Laura Ap

Description: Poetry, Poetic Inquiry and Rwanda by Laura Apol This book describes the practice of poetic inquiry and takes the reader through the process of translating lived experience into poetry that attends to the lives of others. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This book describes the practice of poetic inquiry and takes the reader through the process of translating lived experience into poetry that attends to the lives of others. Using her own writing—from early drafts to published poems—Apol demonstrates elements of poetic inquiry that both give it strength and make it complicated: the importance of craft (the aesthetic); the imperative of accuracy and reliability (the investigative); the significance of ethical responsibility that leads to action (witness); and the centrality of relational connectedness and accountability (withness). Apol raises questions about what it means for poems to function as both research and art, and illustrates what happens when there are irresolvable conflicts between the demands of the poem and a commitment to relationship. Throughout, Apol addresses her white privilege, as well as the dominant white/colonial narrative that often seeps into arts-based work unless it is overtly and critically addressed. The book goes beyond arts-based research, speaking as well to other forms of cross-national, cross-cultural research. It is a call for relational scholarship that moves toward action, a heart-rending teaching, a post-traumatic aesthetic map laid down with clear and poignant theory and praxis to extend, serve and guide. Back Cover This book describes the practice of poetic inquiry and takes the reader through the process of translating lived experience into poetry that attends to the lives of others. Using her own writing--from early drafts to published poems--Apol demonstrates elements of poetic inquiry that both give it strength and make it complicated: the importance of craft (the aesthetic); the imperative of accuracy and reliability (the investigative); the significance of ethical responsibility that leads to action (witness); and the centrality of relational connectedness and accountability (withness). Apol raises questions about what it means for poems to function as both research and art, and illustrates what happens when there are irresolvable conflicts between the demands of the poem and a commitment to relationship. Throughout, Apol addresses her white privilege, as well as the dominant white/colonial narrative that often seeps into arts-based work unless it is overtly and critically addressed. The book goes beyond arts-based research, speaking as well to other forms of cross-national, cross-cultural research. It is a call for relational scholarship that moves toward action, a heart-rending teaching, a post-traumatic aesthetic map laid down with clear and poignant theory and praxis to extend, serve and guide. " It has been a long time since I have been so powerfully affected by a book. I feel like I have been punched in the gut and am grateful for it. This book is unflinching, unapologetic, and haunting. The material is accessible to everyone; poets and non-poets alike, or anyone desiring to conduct ethical inquiry to transform self and the world. " Morna McDermott McNulty , Towson University, Maryland, USA Author Biography Dr. Laura Apol is an associate professor in Teacher Education at Michigan State University, where she specializes in issues of diversity in childrens and YA literature, global childrens literature, poetic inquiry, gender studies, and creative writing. Apols scholarship in the areas of literacy education, childrens and YA literature, and arts-based research methodologies has been published widely. She is the author of several prize-winning collections of poetry: Falling into Grace; Crossing the Ladder of Sun; Requiem, Rwanda (drawn from her work using writing to facilitate healing among survivors of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi and translated into Kinyarwanda under the title Emwe Nimvura Irabyibuka—Even the Rain Remembers); and Nothing but the Blood. Her most recent work focuses on the therapeutic uses of writing and literature in response to trauma, and she currently serves as poet laureate for the Lansing area in mid-Michigan. Table of Contents 1 Going to Rwanda.- 2 Turning Research into Art: The process.- 3 Attending to Aesthetics: The art of revision.- 4 Attending to Accuracy: Investigative poetry.- 5 Self, Audience and Activism: Poetry of witness.- 6 Relational Responsibility: Poetry of witness.- 7 Public/Action.- 8 Poetic Respect; Poetic Letting Go.- 9 Conclusion: Engaging with the Lives of Others. Feature Provides a significant contribution to current thought on poetic inquiry, therapeutic writing and poetry of witness Guides the reader through the practice and process of poetic inquiry Offers insights on the complex interactions among a commitment to accuracy, an obligation to the story/data, writing for witness, relational responsibility, and the aesthetic demands of poetic craft Details ISBN3030565645 Author Laura Apol Short Title Poetry, Poetic Inquiry and Rwanda Pages 118 Series Studies in Arts-Based Educational Research Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 3030565645 ISBN-13 9783030565640 Format Paperback Subtitle Engaging with the Lives of Others Series Number 3 Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition 1st Publication Date 2021-11-11 Imprint Springer Nature Switzerland AG Place of Publication Cham Country of Publication Switzerland UK Release Date 2021-11-11 Illustrations 1 Illustrations, black and white; XVIII, 118 p. 1 illus. 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