DIFFERENT KAMIEŃSKA. FROM A WHITE MANUSCRIPT TO KAMIEŃSKA´S LAST POEM
The article discusses the origins of one of the most renown poetic volumes by Anna Kamieńska, A White Manuscript. Today, the history of this book can be reconstructed only partially, on the basis of two poetic notebooks from 1968–1970. Reading A White Manuscript in the context of those two manuscripts makes it possible to see the metamorphoses of particular poems (e.g. blurring of the tropes leading to cycles appearing inside the volume); it also allows us to discover that at the end of the 1960s there appeared in Kamieńska’s verses motifs that became important in her later poetry. It was while the poet was working on A White Manuscript that her fully original vision of corporeality emerged, together with a poetic image which received its defi nitive shape in Kamieńska’s last poem.

The article discusses the origins of one of the most renown poetic volumes by Anna Kamieńska, A White Manuscript. Today, the history of this book can be reconstructed only partially, on the basis of two poetic notebooks from 1968–1970. Reading A White Manuscript in the context of those two manuscripts makes it possible to see the metamorphoses of particular poems (e.g. blurring of the tropes leading to cycles appearing inside the volume); it also allows us to discover that at the end of the 1960s there appeared in Kamieńska’s verses motifs that became important in her later poetry. It was while the poet was working on A White Manuscript that her fully original vision of corporeality emerged, together with a poetic image which received its defi nitive shape in Kamieńska’s last poem.