The Broken Language of High Poetry: Agency and Emotion in Teresino by Vivian Lamarque

Abstract

Enrico Minardi, in ``The Broken Language of High Poetry: Agency and Emotion in Teresino by Vivian Lamarque,{''} looks at Lamarque's work's overtly autobiographic perspective, in which the writing subject manipulates language and the conventions of poetry in a powerful effort to transgress the discursive limits of convention. Minardi sees a clear therapeutic scope to Lamarque's poems, focusing in particular on the specifically ``female{''} experiences of the narrator. He pays particular attention to Lamarque's manipulation of word and structure as a means of rebelling against gendered expectations and inscribing her identity on an individual as well as social plane.