Pragnienie

The speaker of these poems lives in a calm, well-fed world where almost any need can be met at once, provided one pays, and he finds it dull. Against it he sets a thirst that no small spring can quench, and asks what being saved could mean when nothing seems to threaten anyone. Everyday life speaks a cramped dialect of habit and envy; the poems choose the other tongue, that of the great dream, and look for metaphysical unrest and a fire to feed the imagination. The collection ends with a self-portrait in which a country rid of one evil waits for a second liberation, this time from a mocking, ironic mass culture.

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About the book

Form

Poetry

Length

82 pages in the original

First published

1999 by Wydawnictwo a5

Author's age

54 when first published

ISBN

9788385568438 (original)