ECO-FRIENDLY ELEPHANTS AND OTHER (NECESSARY) HYBRIDS. A ZOOPOETICS FOR A WORLD IN DRIFT
ECO-FRIENDLY ELEPHANTS AND OTHER (NECESSARY) HYBRIDS. A ZOOPOETICS FOR A WORLD IN DRIFT

Summary/Abstract: Following a structuring line that develops my previous zoopoetic studies, the present paper proposes an analytical revisitation of Alexandru Ovidiu Vintilă’s recent poetry through the lens of zoopoetics. I will point out the way in which animal images – be they protozoa, translucent fish, domestic birds or hybrid figures – participate in the articulation of a poetics of fragility and interstitiality, configuring a world in which the gestures of human being are permanently reflected, doubled or disarticulated by the gestures of non-human otherness. In addition, I will highlight the way in which the “discrete fauna” that appears in the poet’s newest volumes (“Insectele imperiului [câte ceva despre orbirea șamanilor]”/ The insects of the empire [something about the blindness of shamans], 2021; “Iglu”, 2022; ”Maki Haku”, 2024 and ”Valiza de lemn”/ ”Wooden Suitcase”, 2025) activates intertextual mechanisms and reflexive layers that refer to the tensions of a human existence on the verge of disaggregation of meaning. Whether microscopic, hybrid or domestic, his bestiary contributes to the construction of a poetic vision in which fragility returns in the form of lucidity, non-human otherness becomes a mirror, and the strategies of inter-species metamorphosis are thematized as a possibility to survive, at least temporarily, in a drifting world.

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