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Exploring the potential of poetry and poetic language as a means of conveying perspectives on later life, this book examines questions such as 'how can we understand ageing and later life?' and 'how can we capture the ambiguities and complexities that the experiences of growing old in time and place entail?' As poetic language illuminates, transfigures and enchants our being in the world, it also offers insights into the existential questions that are amplified as we age, including the vulnerabilities and losses that humble us and connect us.
This volume suggests a path towards the poetics of ageing by means of presenting analyses of published poetry on ageing ranging from William Shakespeare to George Oppen; the use of reading and writing poetry among lay people in old age, including persons living with dementia; and the poetic nuances that emerge from other literary practices and contexts in relation to ageing - counting personal poetic reflections from many of the contributing authors.
Contents
List of Contributors
Foreword Gregory Orr
Acknowledgements
Introduction: A Poetic Language of Ageing Olga V. Lehmann and Oddgeir Synnes
1. The Mother of Beauty: Notes on the (Possible) Poetry of Dementia Mark Freeman
2. Poetry and Dementia: Imagining and Shaping More Just Futures Aagje Swinnen
3. Time and Dignity: A Phenomenological Investigation of Poetry Writing in Dementia Care Oddgeir Synnes, Eva Gjengedaland Målfrid Råheim
4. Growing Older with Haiku: What Haiku Offers to Japanese Expats in Denmark Kyoko Murakami
5. Poetry Lasts Forever: Case Study of a 100-year-old Brazilian Poet and His Daughter Ana Cecilia de Sousa Bastos
6. 'An Old Man Can Do Somewhat': Styles of Male Old Age in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2 Arthur W. Frank
7. Virtuous Ageing as a Poetic Endeavour: Motivations to Write and Effects of Writing among Older Adults in Norway Olga V. Lehmann andSvend Brinkmann
8. The Poetics of Growing Old: Metaphoric Competence and the Philosophic Homework of Later Life William L. Randall
9. Poetry, Science, and a Science of Poetry: With an Illustration of Poetry and Ageing Steven R. Brown
10. Writing Lives Merete Mazzarella
11. Other Voices: George Oppen, Dementia, and the Echo of Lyric Alastair Morrison
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