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Poetic Inquiry

Using Found Poetry and Identity Poetry to Transform Qualitative Data

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Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

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Janesick, V.J. (2016). Poetic Inquiry. In: Reinertsen, A.B. (eds) Becoming Earth. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-429-9_4

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