Tomasz Cieślak-Sokołowski
Wielogłos, Issue 4 (62) 2024, Early Access
An article devoted to a discussion of several poems by contemporary Polish poets (Marcin Świetlicki and Robert Tekieli) that engage clearly with avant-garde and neo-avant-garde traditions. The author challenges the overly hasty association of the poetry of the two writers born in the 1960s with the paradigm of lyrical expression, as well as the tendency to burden their artistic endeavours with the revolutionary pressures often imposed on literary attempts to renew the avant-garde in contemporary Polish poetry. Świetlicki and Tekieli are ultimately presented as the authors of this socially engaged poetry.
Tomasz Cieślak-Sokołowski
Wielogłos, Issue 1 (9) 2011: Świadomość krytyki, 2011, pp. 136 - 147
https://doi.org/10.4467/2084395XWI.11.001.0320
How to Read Contemporary Poetry in a Contemporary Way
The article constitutes an attempt to pose a question regarding the modes of reading contemporary poetry; at the same time, it ought to be noted that the term contemporary literature is understood broadly and it denotes primarily changes in the modernist and late-modernist literature. It is, on the one hand, the critical writings of Majorie Perloff – described here against the background of the adventures of the American criticism of the 20th and 21st century, and on the other, a reading of Marcin Świetlicki’s single poem Tak, kawiarniany dekadentyzm – that proved to be convenient fields to pose the above question. The thesis concerning the exhaustion of the intentional critical style and mode of symbolist exegesis is accompanied by an attempt to reconstruct the principles which would make it possible in contemporary times to read closely a work of poetry.
Tomasz Cieślak-Sokołowski
Wielogłos, Issue 1 (3) 2008, 2008, pp. 188 - 196