Przelotem

A large collection that reads like one poem about the mystery we all face before we pass from somewhere to nowhere: we are in the world only in passing. Death is not loud or dramatic here but a slow loosening from what was natural and close, the bird falls silent and the world fades. Instead of theology there is surprise: how can one never again see New York, Rome or Lisbon? The poems also doubt that words can say this, sometimes with a joke about poets who cannot reach the end of their own poem.

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About the book

Form

Poetry

Length

108 pages in the original

First published

2007 by Wydawnictwo Literackie

Author's age

76 when first published

ISBN

9788308041024 (original)