Prezentacje: Edward Pasewicz: Sonata na cytozynę i trzy fałszywe białka. O mitobiologicznych szyfrach Edwarda Pasewicza
Presentations: Edward Pasewicz: Sonata for Citosine and Three Fake Proteins: On Edward Pasewicz’s Mito-biological Codes

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses Edward Pasewicz’s poetry from the perspective of an organic metaphor, developed by the poet in his latest volumes (“Pałacyk Bertolta Brechta” [“Bertolt Brecht’s Palace”] and “Och, Mitochondria”. The author considers whether Pasewicz’s interest in the reflection on tissues, cells and DNA strands, and the idea of combining them with the issue of poetic coding, may be seen as an attempt at resolving the impasse between mythical and realistic forces of this work, or whether it merely constitutes a supplementation to the earlier proposed strategies of translating life into reality. Juxtaposing Pasewicz’s experiments with biopoetry and seeking in them a chance to transcend the poetics of the author of “Dolna Wilda” [“The Lower Wilda”], I come to the conclusion that in this case the organic metaphor serves further exploration of a private mythology; but it turns out to be not very productive for the rethinking of the concept of life and community.

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