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A slim book of poems by a writer who once cast himself as a boy conquering the world and now meets middle age, time and loss. It opens with a defiant shrug at talk of poetry's end. Many poems use simple, jingling rhyme; recollections of places, people and words that cannot be brought back drift through, and memory, dreaming and make-believe run together. Stars, planets and open space keep returning as the world grows larger than the speaker. Sleep becomes a little death, a going back to the safety of the womb, where no clock ticks. Laid out by the designer Małgorzata Rybicka, the pages use unusual typography inspired by old Polish posters.

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About the book

Form

Poetry

Length

31 pages in the original

First published

2014 by Ośrodek „Brama Grodzka – Teatr NN”

Author's age

50 when first published

ISBN

9788361064671 (original)