http://hdl.handle.net/11320/20734 2026-08-10T13:58:24Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/20736 Tytuł: Grief and Language (In)adequacy: Contemporary Elegies of Eileen Myles and Ada Limón Autorzy: Szerstjuk, Weronika Abstrakt: This article explores how two contemporary poets, Eileen Myles and Ada Limón, confront grief, situating their work within a post-experimental context where loss is embedded in the quotidian sphere. Focusing on Myles’s “Mount St. Helens” (2001) and Limón’s “The Dead Boy” (2018), the article analyzes how both poets incorporate metapoetic strategies into their elegies, foregrounding acts of naming and the impulse to immortalize the dead while remaining critically attentive to the implications of representation. The article shows how Myles and Limón situate their poetics of grief within a space that allows for multiplicity of narration, perspective, and speaking voice, shaping an ethically aware and personal elegiac practice that reworks the traditional form. While both poets draw on the legacy of experimental poetry, they do so in distinct ways: Myles emphasizes improvisation and formal disruption, whereas Limón adopts an accessible lyric style that favors immediacy and ethical tension. Together, these poems reveal how contemporary elegy transforms linguistic insufficiency, uncertainty, and lack of resolution into productive sites of reflection, suggesting new possibilities for mourning. 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/20735 Tytuł: Merging the Bodies of Water in Contemporary American Poetry: A Hydrofeminist Reading of Three Poems by Natalie Diaz Autorzy: Flajšar, Jiří Abstrakt: The article first introduces the Native American literature tradition, then it addresses the themes of Native poetry before focusing upon Natalie Diaz, a major contemporary Native American poet of the Southwest whose work explores the relationship of the body, landscape, and language to indigenous history. In her three poems, “The First Water Is the Body,” “How the Milky Way Was Made,” and “exhibits from The American Water Museum,” Diaz frames the river as a mythic body of water that permeates and defines her own body and being. Drawing on recent approaches such as hydropoetics and hydrofeminism, the article examines the unique relationship of the poems’ speaker to the river, her beloved, and her people. Through looking at Diaz’s language-switching between English, Mojave, and Spanish, the article shows how the in-poem translation of crucial concepts of identity exposes the limits of colonization by language and articulates a “rivered” lyrical subject of rare power. The analysis concludes that Diaz’s poetry offers a decolonizing ontology in which the river and the poet’s body are mutually constitutive while suggesting a sustainable, erotically charged practice of caring that links the history of indigenous survival strategies to future-oriented definitions of desire and environmental responsibility. 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z