Caesura and the Deforming Poem

How does poetry deal with disability? At the level of theme and voice, Australian poetry â including the theorising and criticism of it â has rarely given overt priority to disabled experience. This essay seeks to contribute to a correction of this neglect by adapting the philosophical approach of Emmanuel Levinas, who wrote of the phenomenological preeminence of the Other. It considers how disability â defined expansively as a bodily otherness which also implicates the self â might become apprehended not only within thematic content, but through the disruptions of poetic form

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