ABSTRACT
Because narrative has been afforded the bullhorn for expressions of subjectivity, poetic experiences of the world have suffered for articulation as a result. Compounding the cultural preference for narrative accounts of subjectivity is the fact that hermeneutics are performed in prose, meaning that poems are interpreted in a different genre. This chapter calls for a future in which the false narrative that narrative has constructed for itself – one of ubiquity and commonality for the expression of subjectivity – is rejected and the truth of poetic subjectivity, the kind that guides our pre-narrativistic capacity as human beings, as well as the one that best approximates instantiations of consciousness, is explored in health care contexts.
