Poetic Inquiry Coming of Age

A Review of "Poetry, Poetic Inquiry and Rwanda: Engaging with the Lives of Others" by Laura Apol

Authors

  • Anne McCrary Sullivan National Louis University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18432/ari29704

Keywords:

poetic inquiry, ethics in poetic inquiry, cross-cultural inquiry, relational research, Rwandan genocide

Abstract

Laura Apol’s Poetry, Poetic Inquiry and Rwanda: Engaging with the Lives of Others (2021) traces the author’s long relationship with survivors of the 1994 Rwanda holocaust in which thousands of Tutsi were murdered by their neighbors, and examines the ways in which her personal uses of poetry for coping with painful subject matter became a longitudinal poetic inquiry. This review responds to themes of relational poetic inquiry and the development of poetic craft and suggests that the author’s development reflects the development of the field of poetic inquiry and marks a stage of accomplishment. 

Author Biography

Anne McCrary Sullivan, National Louis University

Anne McCrary Sullivan’s  most recent book is Learning Calabar: Notes from a Poet’s Year in Nigeria. She is a naturalist, writer, and poetic inquirer. www.annemccrarysullivan.com.  

Published

2022-12-04

How to Cite

Sullivan, A. M. (2022). Poetic Inquiry Coming of Age: A Review of "Poetry, Poetic Inquiry and Rwanda: Engaging with the Lives of Others" by Laura Apol . Art/Research/International:/A/Transdisciplinary/Journal, 7(2), 576–582. https://doi.org/10.18432/ari29704