Poetry of Tymoteusz Karpowicz - the last great modernist and a master of Polish linguistic poetry - "to tear readers away from their previous habits and give them an emotional shock..."
" 'If poetry is a tool for generating pleasant stimuli and awakening agreeable thoughts in the reader, then my book has been created to tear readers away from their previous habits and give them an emotional shock. If melodious stanzas, which trill lightly in the ear, and which invariably arouse a familiar, elevated mood, are instruments of poetic expression, then my book has been created to break this rule, increase the demands on the sensitivity of the recipients and place them in an embarrassing or at least uncomfortable situation' - one could thus paraphrase Tymoteusz Karpowicz's literary strategy, which originates in the great literary and artistic quests of the twentieth century."(Andrzej Falkiewicz)
Tymoteusz Karpowicz (b. 1921) poet, writer, translator and literary critic, has been termed the last great modernist and a master of Polish linguistic poetry. He lives in the USA.
- Tymoteusz Karpowicz
The Other Side of the Tree Rings / Słoje zadrzewne
Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, Wroclaw 1999
© Tymoteusz Karpowicz and Wydawnictwo Dolnoslaskie
160 x 241, 360 pages, hardcover
ISBN 83-7023-763-0