Framing potentiality in Vona Groarke's X. Issue 4 (3rd April 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pietrzak, Wit
• Is Part Of: Textual practice. Volume 37:Issue 4(2023)
• Page Start: 586
• Page End: 602
• Publication Date: 2023-04-03
• Subjects: Vona Groarke -- contemporary Irish poetry -- potentiality -- frame -- visual arts; Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Criticism -- Periodicals; Criticism, Textual -- Periodicals; Semiotics -- Periodicals; 801.95
• DOI: 10.1080/0950236X.2022.2056761
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0950-236X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Vona Groarke has long evoked domestic spaces as a means of self-definition in face of a fluid world. Unlike her earlier work, though, in Four Sides Full and X, she finds in architectural constructions, gardens and visual arts a liminal space in which the persona withdraws from the world of action and actuality into a state of potentiality. Although this state is fraught with painful feelings of loneliness, Groarke, in order to resist the seclusion that threatens to engulf her, strives after a radical openness, employing the frames of poetic form inside of which the persona arises as it always already disappears into the framing whiteness of the page.