Ta chmura powraca

These are city poems, but about particular places and real events rather than an idea of the city. In Warsaw, the poet writes, the draught in the metro is the colourless roar of time. The images are often grey and disturbing: an overcrowded lift, sour courtyards, a pavement rotting between rubbish and sand, slums and residences that rhyme. Places are worth as much as the past pressed into them, and every walk is a march into memory, including memory of the Holocaust; one poem says only that he does not expect the present.

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About the book

Form

Poetry

Length

89 pages in the original

Set in

Poland

First published

2005 by Wydawnictwo Literackie

Author's age

62 when first published

ISBN

9788308036983 (original)