Poetics of LivelinessCan 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 movements that constitute the ever shifting edges of clouds? We tend to think of these subjects as reserved for science, but, as Ada Smailbegovi argues, twentieth