The paper mainly deals with the theoretical analysis and interpretation of four poetry collections written by Nada Grubišić, a postmodernist poetess from Pula, whose work was disregarded and neglected in the world of Croatian literary criticism. Aside from her (in this day and age) voluminous poetic opus and hermetic poetic writing she also wrote poetic prose and professional articles that she published outside the borders of our country, too. The aspect of poetry mentioned in the title of the paper (metaphors of the body and suffering) is identified in the poems of four collections that were published in the period of time sufficient for us to have a clear insight into the poetic changes of this exceptional poet: Djevojčica iz porječja (2000.), Metropola praznine (2007.), Oralne teme (2012.) and posthumously published collection Gibraltar (2019). The aspect of the body and suffering is represented through the teoretical works of Julie Kristeve, Andrea Zlatar, Soren Kierkegaard and Elizabeth Grosz. Their concepts of body, resentment and suffering were applied to interpret Grubišić's songs intertwined with physical (in)experiences of diabolical physicality among which suffering takes precedence as one of the basic semantic principles of Grubišić's opus. Moreover, with regard to the reader's and critic's (non)reception, this work studies and deals with the interpretation of some basic aspects of her poetry in order to offer better understanding of the titled aspect of the studied corpus of poetry.