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Is poetry disabled?

In poetry’s capacity to self-define, to reject conventionality, to be in a constant state of flux and to hold the contradictory together in its granularity, it subverts formal systems of designation time and again. Poetry then avoids simple diagnosis, at least pre-emptively. As such, it holds within it the capacity for new ways of seeing, knowing and doing; and here, it has many similarities with contemporary disability aesthetics and the disabled experience, broad as it is.

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