Fermentacja kanonów
The Fermentation of the Canons

Summary/Abstract: The legacy of the institutional, ideological and (to some extent) aesthetic revolt of the 1990s is a small number of poets who continue to be influential, a sense of the fierce marginalisation of poetry in the public sphere, a pessimistic outlook on old and new languages and their potential as regards communication, and a sense of disconnection from poetic tradition. The debuts of the twenty-first century do not fully reject their immediate predecessors but they perform a return to life. Practices of continuation, of social commitment and of direct engagement with the reader are pitched against intuitions about the end of poetry. At the same time, the Romantic tradition provides motivation and models of confessional poetry, while the avant-garde acts as a paragon for artistic experimentation. Both traditions, while serving the vitality of poetry, become present only obliquely. Even as poets express their reservations about these traditions, they ferment and produce side effects “with no strings attached”.

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