"To be a body here, and a body here, and a body here." A Phenomenological Perspective in the Literary Work of Barbara Klicka

The paper is an attempt to analyse somatic motifs in Barbara Klicka's writings, including three volumes of her poetry: Same same (2012), Nice (2015), Allel (2021), and the novel Zdroj (2019). The proposed interpretation is based on the phenomenological perspective since this vantage point effectively reconstructs the mechanism of the description of individual experiences. Furthermore, it proves useful in understanding the peculiarity of Klicka's feminine characters, who are defined by their corporeality. Within the analysis of selected poems and the novel Zdroj, Merlau-Ponty's thoughts are used to describe the corporeality of a woman patient and her experience connected with the problems of motherhood, eroticism, and existence. Moreover, concepts and tools borrowed from posthuman feminist phenomenology are applied to illustrate the communion of the human being with the environment.