Poetics of Liveliness : : Molecules, Fibers, Tissues, Clouds / / Ada Smailbegović.
Can poetry act as an aesthetic amplification device, akin to a microscope, through which we can sense minute or nearly imperceptible phenomena such as the folding of molecules into their three-dimensional shapes, the transformations that make up the life cycle of a silkworm, or the vaporous movement...
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