O poruszającej poezji Wojciecha Kudyby
About moving poetry by Wojciech Kudyba

Summary/Abstract: The preliminary part of the paper includes biographical data about Wojciech Kudyba and an outline of his poetic works. The further part of the text is devoted to characterising three latest collections of his poems. These are Tyszowce i inne miasta (Tyszowce and other towns – 2005), Gorce Pana (Gorce of the Lord – 2007) and Ojciec się zmienia (The father is changing – 2011). All poems by Wojciech Kudyba are characterised by persistent observation of the hidden agenda of the reality – the nature, its components and life, various places and products of culture, human experiences and behaviours. His poems reflect an intense contact with God, which lets him (also in the periods of difficult experiences) maintain a spiritual balance, gives the sense of purpose, internal strength, joy of life that does not avoid manifestations of humour. What is striking in this poetry is its originality and wealth of forms: multiplicity of symbols, beauty of metaphorics, surprising metonymies, meaningful enumerations and paradoxes emphasising complexity of the world; the astonishing style mosaic – from the clearly poetic to the extremely colloquial, the exceptional variety of syntactic and versification structures that are always subordinate to the content requirements.

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