Poezja na kształt ciała (i na odwrót)
Poetry in Bodily Shape (And The Other Way Round)

Summary/Abstract: The author of the paper explains that the omission of the notion of corporeality inscribed in the text constitutes the impoverishment of philological analyses and interpretations. The omission causes the loss of what motivates the whole textuality – the experience which is possible through the body and its various senses. The interpretation requires the inclusion of metensomatosis – the transmutation of one body into another. Poetry enables the “communication” of what is nota word but what constitutes its source(s). In other words, beyond the visibility of the written form,poetry also reveals the most biological/bodily aspects – preceding the symbolic order (of culture, institution). The experience of the body and the bodily experience must be subject to “verbalization” (its particular aspects which are: the “melody of words”, the rhythm in speech/writing, the harmony, echolalia, the meter). The rhythm is the most important sign of corporeality in the text and it becomes the “signature of the speaking subject, proving the uniqueness of every text”, its“ somatic style” and the basis of Adam Dziadek’s somatic critique project.

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