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Paper · Semantic Scholar

Affective Reconstruction: Trauma, Witnessing, and the Poetics of Emotional Survival in Contemporary American Poetry

This study analyzes the role of trauma as more than an experience of disruption and inability to communicate in the context of contemporary American poetry; rather, the author focuses on trauma as a transformative phenomenon that involves emotional restructuring. While the field of Trauma Theory has predominantly focused on such aspects of trauma as fragmentation, silence, and representation, less scholarly attentio…

picked 11 Aug 2026

Reference · Wikidata

poetry

literary style characterized by a strong expressiveness of words

picked 14 Aug 2026

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Poetry

Poetry is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings. A particular instance of poetry is a poem and is written by a poet. Poets use a variety of techniques called poetic devices, such as assonance, alliteration, consonance, euphony and cacophony, onomatopoeia, rhythm, rhyme schemes and sound s…

picked 13 Aug 2026

Book · DOAB

Poetry Vocare

Poetry Vocare is the first collection of poetry published by young American poet A. Staley Groves. A dense fabric of resemblances and reflections, this work engages with Wallace Stevens, Ossip Mandelstam, and Emily Dickinson. In addition to poems Groves gives a supplement of prose, a short essay titled “Affirmation of Instruction.” Poetry scholar Judith Balso wrote a foreword in French to the work.

picked 13 Aug 2026

Full text · Open Library

Understanding poetryUnderstanding poetry

Narrative and descriptive poems exemplifying the key elements are presented and analyzed.

cover via Open Library
picked 13 Aug 2026

Image · DPLA

PoetryPoetry
Archives of American Art, via DPLA
picked 13 Aug 2026
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