Ways of Inhabiting a Poem

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https://doi.org/10.22456/2236-6385.144542

Abstract

This essay is dedicated to the poem “Kuenda” by André Capilé. Its analysis is based on poet and professor Katie Peterson’s perspective on poetry and focuses on the presence of the body both in the making of the poem and in the reading experience, as Paul Zumthor argues. To this end, it draws on the notion of “embodied memory”, developed by performer and researcher Diana Taylor, of the “empowered word”, developed by Malian writer Hampaté Bâ, and of the voice as a “rupture of the body's enclosure”, developed by literary historian and linguist Paul Zumthor. This is an essay written in terms of friendship, based on encounters, intimacy and dialog between author and poet.

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Lia Duarte Mota, PUC-Rio

Coordenadora e professora da especialização Escritas Performáticas: invenção e procedimentos artísticos, doutora em Literatura, Cultura e Contemporaneidade pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, realizou estágio de pós-doutorado (PNPD-CAPES/MEC) no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras: Estudos Literários da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. E-mail: liadumo@gmail.com; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8453-1751.

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2025-06-07

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MOTA, Lia Duarte. Ways of Inhabiting a Poem. Cadernos do IL, [S. l.], n. 68, p. 151–167, 2025. DOI: 10.22456/2236-6385.144542. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/cadernosdoil/article/view/144542. Acesso em: 22 aug. 2026.

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Artigos de estudos literários