Iubita lui Kirillov

Now on his fourth volume of poems - after publishing Letters to Nothing (1999), Cămăşa de forță (2001) and Wounded Sonnets (2009) - the poet from Craiova Aurelian Zisu introduces us to a poetic universe of Dostoyevsky essence in which Kirillov successively kills his own death, which seduces ordinary mortals with a decadent idiocy. Kirillov's lover brings together in a forbidden way themes such as eros and thanatos, marginality and doubling, personifying states of mind that take the form of original texts at the limit of poems with a fixed form in which medievalism of the Radu Stanca type, the Eminesian intertext, romanticism dealt with in repartee and postmodern play combine in a discursive melange that incites readers and challenges literary critics.