Nadjeżdża

A first book of poems whose speaker belongs to the generation raised in post-communist Poland, where every limit feels like an outrage and every choice is a right. He drifts among too many options, mocks shopping for dreams, gives in to temptation and watches himself do it with cool irony. He plays the scoundrel, whose meanness seems to excite women, sizes women up as silly or flighty, and drops the act before those with minds of their own. News breaks in: the Smolensk air crash, the Euro 2012 football championship, climbers dying on Broad Peak, spin from politicians, people pushed to the margins. Scenes from a safe housing estate and a nightclub sit beside surreal visions of stars and moths, in a voice that changes register constantly.

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About the book

Form

Poetry

Length

59 pages in the original

First published

2013 by Biuro Literackie

Author's age

25 when first published

ISBN

9788363129583 (original)