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Brief, compressed poems that borrow the vocabulary of computing and the internet (inboxes, selfies, Facebook, DNA, intercepted data, a lie detector, artificial intelligence) to write about people living now, in a world still governed by Newton's laws. "We sit between wars," says the title poem, and the times described are ones of dissonance, apathy, alarm, parades and terror: the world breaks down, life moves into a cold store, a God in uniform guards a church. History, fear and progress each get a poem of their own and act like living creatures, while the individual stands defenceless before them. Love and the homeland, addressed almost as a neighbour, are weighed too, with Kepler, the Song of Songs, Shakespeare and Buñuel close at hand.

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About the book

Form

Poetry

Length

43 pages in the original

First published

2017 by Wydawnictwo Literackie

Author's age

72 when first published

ISBN

9788308063651 (original)