Edward Stachura – geopoeta
Edward Stachura: A Geopoet

Summary/Abstract: Konończuk examines the work of poet and writer Edward Stachura through the prism of geopoetics. As a translator and friend of the French poet and literary theorist Michel Deguy, who proposed the concept of geopoetics ten years before Kenneth White, Stachura was aware of the idea – popular with French literary scholars in the late 1960s and early 70s – that literature and geographical space were interlinked. To explore the spacial nature of Stachura’s imagination Konończuk discusses his novel Cała jaskrawość [All the Brightness] in which the author articulates his experience of geographical space as an enormous poetic potential. Konończuk reads the novel as an elaboration on the metaphor that opens Stachura’s collection of impressionistic essays Wszystko jest poezja [Everything is Poetry], whose protagonist-narrator enters the landscape aware that it is an unwritten poem; as a poet he is able to transcribe it out of the air.

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