Surface Tension Literary Fiction MOLDOVA: Vitalie Ciobanu

MOLDOVA: Vitalie Ciobanu

Porta launches an investigation of the limits of language

and Higgins himself

then threaten to rival or even engulf the reality that gave birth to them" —Jonathan Lethem

diminishingly multiplied

Surface Tension Literary Fiction MOLDOVA: Vitalie CiobanuTaking Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, and Gerard Manley Hopkins as its primary subjects, Surface Tension reveals how these later Victorian poets repeatedly imagine the aesthetic momentcharged, variegated, intensely focusedas capable of birthing a new, and newly redemptive, culture. Turning to contemporary experimental poets and theorists of poetry, such as Andrew Joron, Lisa Robertson, Christopher Nealon, and Joan Retallack, it goes on to