Włos Bregueta

The title names the fine spring that keeps a watch's balance wheel steady, and these poems look for steadiness in a world of hatred, rewritten history and political cruelty. Much of that world arrives through the television: soap operas, tennis matches, old Polish films. One poem slides from a break point at a tournament to the young victims of the Holocaust, Anne Frank among them; others take on the abuse of power and a pogrom in the town of Ostrowiec. Set against them is a cycle of love poems to Magda, whose sleep keeps the horses awake and whose loosened hair stops the world. Echoes of Romantic verse, myth and the Bible lend the book a solemn note.

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About the book

Form

Poetry

Length

31 pages in the original

First published

2016 by WBPiCAK

Author's age

52 when first published

ISBN

9788364504457 (original)