"Retardation", an inconspicuous volume of poetry by Agnieszka Kuciak, is without doubt the most outstanding Polish poetry debut of the nineties. A witty poetic concept, irony and humour such as those seen in the poetry of Wislawa Szymborska.
"RETARDATION, an inconspicuous volume of poetry by Agnieszka Kuciak, is without doubt the most outstanding Polish poetry debut of the nineties. A witty poetic concept, irony and humour such as those seen in the poetry of Wisława Szymborska. The extraordinarily focussed vision and compression of meaning of Emily Dickinson. The elegant poetic structure of Brodsky or Heaney. The entrancing linguistic virtuosity of Barańczak. Unsurprisingly for a debutante, the master's voice can be heard in Agnieszka Kuciak's work - a fact, indeed, to which the poet willingly admits - but her poems nonetheless have an individual and discernible voice of their own. These are poems which are characteristic of the entire "Polish school of poetry", which speaks of existential matters and human adventure and the world." (Bronisław Maj)
Agnieszka Kuciak
RETARDATION / RETARDACJA
Wydawnictwo Zielona Sowa, Kraków 2001
© Agnieszka Kuciak, rights available
144 x 203, 42 pages, paperback
ISBN 83-7220-254-0