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A boy in a tartan cap and charity clothes in the faded colours of the 1980s is told that wherever he goes it will be worse. The poems span the sacredness of childhood and the profanity of adult life, finding inspiration in a gay website, a Marlene Dietrich song or skaters in front of the basilica of Saint-Denis. A closing cycle of twelve sonnets about television spectacles of death suggests that suffering cannot be told, worn out by repeated images or sealed in form, and that culture may be the only rescue.

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About the book

Form

Poetry

Length

63 pages in the original

First published

2009 by Biuro Literackie

Author's age

29 when first published

ISBN

9788362006403 (original)