Bach for my baby

Short, pared-down poems built around single images, in which love is spoken of mostly as loss. A forbidden affair, the female body, desire, parting, prayer and death return again and again, and the voice keeps crossing from life into death and back. A recurring queen burns with passion and calls herself "baby", while the poems extend their pity to everyone hurt by a love that has ended. The title plays on an album of Bach's music, on a child and on the pet name lovers use, and the poems keep a musical rhythm of their own.

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About the book

Form

Poetry

Length

35 pages in the original

First published

2012 by Biuro Literackie

Author's age

35 when first published

ISBN

9788363129026 (original)