MOTERS KALBOS PASAULIS LIŪNĖS SUTEMOS RINKINYJE „GRAFFITI“
WOMAN’S LANGUAGE WORLD IN LIUNE SUTEMA’S COLLECTION “GRAFFITI”

Summary/Abstract: This article explores the poetry collection “Graffiti” (1993) written by the Lithuanian emigrant poet Liune Sutema (Zinaida Vera Nagyte-Katiliskiene). It seeks to reveal a creating woman’s world and her individuality as a lyrical subject. Lyrical subject is treated here as a living reality, seeking harmony with the world, but not merely as a textual figure. Free verses are written in a form of a diary, notes, a letter, or a dream. The elements of art and music are artfully interwoven and form a specific style, typical for Liune Sutema alone. The space of a woman’s world is fully revealed applying the methods of biographical, archival material and interpretive analysis. The most general principle of the research is a hermeneutic cycle of poetry, based on H. G. Gadamer and M. Heidegger’s theoretical insights. The study of Liune Sutema’s collection “Graffiti” reveals the poetess’ talent: the ability to create a form that enhances the style of the content. Poems-miniatures are merged into overwhelming indivisible aesthetic unit. A code of the potery collection becomes a picture of a woman, writing and ornamenting herself with graphite. It reveals the multifaceted drama of creator’s fate: the loss of homeland, close people and the threat of losing the mother-tongue. The creator’s stoic and delicate demeanour is opposed to the destroying force of the external world. The strongest metaphor of the collection is the Sun-Life tree. The style of poetic language is most multifarious. Language is played upon, arranging short, “non-ornamental” words as graphite styrokes which aptly sketch out internal as well as external creator’s world. The lyric subject speaks with those gone beyond, Christ, pagan gods. Voices of a speaker and interlocutor merge together in the monologues disclosing the intirety of a word and existence. Poetry is imbued with nostalgia, based on a desire to preserve national identity through language. Word becomes the axis of creative world and life: what writing, breathing. The creating woman writes to live.

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