„Słowo, brzozowa koro” – czy [Psiej książce] Piotra Janickiego potrzebna jest ekokrytyka (i odwrotnie)?
“A Word, Birch Bark”: Does Piotr Janicki’s [A Dog’s Book] Need Ecocriticism (and Vice Versa)?

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the work of Piotr Janicki, one of the most interesting Polish poets of the middle generation (born 1974). The author focuses primarily on the 2018 untitled volume of poems, referred to as [Psia książka] ([A Dog’s Book]), in order to recreate the structure of its lyrical subject using the categories offered by ecocritical discourse, represented by the works of Aleksandra Ubertowska, Rosi Braidotti, Timothy Morton and others. In the course of the analysis, it turns out that an important programmatic trait of Janicki's poetry is the desire to break the anthropocentric perspective, which would place his work in the trend of “deeply ecological” literature. The task of thus classified works is, inter alia, to “infect” readers with new forms of sensitivity and imagination which break with traditionally understood humanism, that is placing man above non-human beings and not in a network of relationships with them, as it happens in [A Dog’s Book].

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