Ankieta: Czym dla Pani/Pana jest czas kultury?
A survey: What are Times of Culture?

Summary/Abstract: Modernity faced with its nakedness: an acute emptiness; metaphysics as an unattractive product: withdrawn from circulation … Krzysztof Siwczyk asks what the role of the poet is in all this. A dull time burdened with “rural superstitions and academic sterility” seems to be dictating bleak poems. The individual pen with its mission is alarmingly dispersed in a shapeless reality. Hölderlin’s question, “Of what use are poets in times of penury?” is painfully alive. Today’s culture has been lost somewhere along the way …

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