Po co dzisiaj jest Zagłada, czyli poetycki survival
What is the Holocaust for today, except poetic survival

Summary/Abstract: This article outlines the method of analyzing newest Polish poetry about the Holocaust from the perspective of ideological uses and abuses as well as interceptions, a method that makes references to the neo-Marxist ideology. The method of suspicious and critical reading of contemporary poems helps reveal the absence from the contemporary discourses of not only the Jewish experience, but also the Jewish Holocaust poetry which discusses it, both that produced in Polish and Yiddish. The analysis of Radosław Kobierski, Piotr Macierzyński, and Grzegorz Kwiatkowski’s works as well as the paraphrases, allusions, and quotations hidden in them reveals the ideological character of references to the Holocaust. By contrast, in a poem by Jacek Podsiadło the said references facilitate building a narrative about Holocaust poetry from scratch, which is the only way of saving it. The introduction of the conception of an archive- poem and a matrix-poem in contrast to a poem which absorbs other people’s voices and bases on abuses and interceptions, close to poetic survival, signals the insufficiently exploited potential of contemporary poetry which gives life to Jewish poetry and facilitates its survival.

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