Poetry
Sack of Symptoms and Other Poems contemporary
Four poems: Sack of Symptoms, Civil War, Progress Report, and A Room. A name is spoken until it comes apart; address continues after listening has stopped. These poems anatomize the fractured subject as a site where the contradictions of social existence are internalized, reproduced, and rendered illegible through the unstable boundaries between self and other, body and language, presence and disappearance. Resisting the liberal fiction of an autonomous individual, Beckett’s poetics exposes identity as a precarious relational construction, while the failure of communication becomes symptomatic of a deeper crisis in the very categories through which subjects apprehend themselves and one another.
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