This article defines and theoretically positions the alternative conceptualization of poetic agency. In its aesthetic singularity it aims to humbly resonate with Arcadian explorations of commodities as poetic objects (Benjamin, 1999). It proposes a reconnaissance of poetics that challenges and complements the prevalent mapping of consumer agency in narrative structures. In order to holistically express practical encounters in situ (Allen, 2002) the inquiry explores the liminal texture of meaning-making. The positioning of poetic agency in a culturally particularist model of consumer experience (Sherry Jr, 2000) is suspended between the four notions of narrativity, performativity, liminality and materiality, and evoked in four separate poems. The article finishes its ethno-poetic journey with a purposefully written poem that illuminates theory and method of poetic agency in a fresh context.
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