The Poetics of Alice Ruiz’s Pores

From Teaching Strategies to the Reception of the Poem in the Classroom

Abstract

When analyzing the surface of Alice Ruiz’s poetic skin-word, we perceive the presence of pores that, when opened in the effort of the poetic self, between pleasure and struggle, perspire. This moistened body presents countless senses, allowing the reader, through its reception, to attribute meanings. Thus, the poetics of pores is structured in the experience of the body and female sexuality, which become instruments of resistance and confrontation to the patriarchal power system. In this context, this article presents an excerpt from our doctoral research, whose objective is to analyze Alice Ruiz’s poems from a stylistic and post-structuralist perspective, in addition to evaluating the reception of this poetics in a 2nd year high school class at the José Sérgio Veras Municipal School, in Sertânia-PE. The analysis is based on the reading comprehension strategies proposed by Girotto and Souza (2010), while the reading of poetic texts is based on the studies of Cohen (1974), Foucault (2014) and Butler (2019). The methodological path for teaching poetry was structured based on the four categories of metacognitive reading by Girotto and Souza (2010): prior knowledge, connections, inference and visualization. This approach allowed not only the broadening of the understanding of the discourses on women, but also the appreciation of the aesthetic nuances that make up the poems. The results were promising, evidencing the students' enthusiasm for Alice Ruiz's poetry.