Raptularz

A book that reads like a notebook or a sketchpad, mixing new poems with pieces of poems written decades earlier; the poet's own closing note names its subjects as love, death and old age. At its centre stands her husband, a translator of German poetry who died years before, called back again and again from his absence while memory still holds him. Since he went, her grief swells with every summer. She has stopped going out, because she could not bring herself to tell anyone who asked after him that he is gone. Home turns into a place nobody lives in, its smashed window patched with a stray board, and time is something that keeps running out.

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About the book

Form

Poetry

Length

91 pages in the original

Genres

Love (assigned by AI)

First published

2023 by Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy

Author's age

92 when first published

ISBN

9788381966986 (original)