Miłobędzka's poetry is closer to the poets of the younger generation. They admire her disciplined language, as economical as possible and free of ornamentation...
"The participle is a strange part of speech," said the poet in one of her interviews. "It pushes away the objects and the adjectives, it's as if wedged in acting, it pushes the writer further away from what he is recording. It is as if written through me. As if I were trying to get rid of myself. There comes a time when you become bored with yourself, when you've had enough of yourself." By pushing away the subject in this way Miłobędzka's poetry is closer to the poets of the younger generation. They admire her disciplined language, as economical as possible and free of ornamentation.
"It cannot be done, but one would like to make up a language and skip all the words that exist. It's a very simple wish - creating something anew." (Krystyna Miłobędzka)
Krystyna Miłobędzka (b. 1932), poet, author of plays for children and of theoretical analyses of this kind of theatre.
- Krystyna Miłobędzka
Participles / Imiesłowy
Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, Wrocław 2000
translation rights: Krystyna Miłobędzka, rights available
140 x 201, 39 pages, paperback
ISBN 83-7023-773-8