Feeling into empathic poetry … through the prison poems of Mahvash Sabet

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April-Rose Geers
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ABSTRACT In this essay, I offer a response to conclusions in affect theory that empathy inspired by the reading of a text is unlikely to result in direct action for change. I balance my understanding of empathy and activism in poetry with Lévinasian theories of ethical relationality and moral responsibility. I discuss the unique quality of a collection of prison poems by Persian poet and Bahá'í leader Mahvash Sabet, revealing her remarkable acts of compassion for her fellow prisoners. I explore how her poems awakened my own voice as a poet and an advocate, taking into account the problematic power hierarchies of geographical distance and cultural difference. Finally, I reflect on the way empathic poetry can provide a shared language capable of reaching across geographical and cultural divides.
感同身受的诗歌 … 通过马赫瓦什·萨贝特的监狱诗歌
在这篇文章中,我对情感理论的结论做出了回应,即阅读文本所激发的同理心不太可能导致直接的改变行动。我将我对诗歌中的移情和行动主义的理解与lsamvinasian关于伦理关系和道德责任的理论相平衡。我将讨论波斯诗人和bah í领袖Mahvash Sabet的监狱诗集的独特品质,揭示了她对其他囚犯的非凡同情。考虑到地理距离和文化差异的权力等级问题,我探索她的诗歌如何唤醒我自己作为诗人和倡导者的声音。最后,我思考了移情诗歌如何能够提供一种跨越地理和文化鸿沟的共同语言。
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