Poetyckie gry ze Śmiercią. O poezji Stanisława Czerniak
Poetic Games with Death. On the Poetry of Stanisław Czerniak

Summary/Abstract: In recent years collections of poetry by Stanisław Czerniak: Nagie Że, Niagara and Iskra buntu have made a distinct imprint against the backdrop of Polish contemporary poetry. Their author devised a specific tone of philosophical lyric poetry, which involves a poetic approach to assorted metaphysical questions. The presented essay discusses the manner in which classical philosophical topoi applied in the poems, i.a. thanks to the introduction of sophisticated games with words, gain a new meaning. At the same time, this is lyric poetry suffused with profound scepticism and irony, albeit one that does not shy from evoking humorous effects and wit. A particularly interesting and novel solution deals with the questions of aging and death, at times startling in their directness and biological literalness. Czerniak attempts to conduct various games with death while maintaining an ironic distance. In his essay P. Dybel endeavoured to identify and describe the different poetic forms of those “games” by proposing a personal interpretation of the examined lyric poetry.

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