Kłaniając się okolicznościom
Bowing to Circumstances

Summary/Abstract: In his poetry Piotr Sommer often makes circumstantial references to events, places, friends and acquaintances whom he mentions by name. For Zaleski this is a pretext for reviewing the classification of what is “occasional” in poetry. He describes the poetic statement in today’s post-print oral and aural culture, which resuscitates the old tradition of uses of poetry – a tradition that is now being relearned. Zaleski describes Sommer’s poetic gestures and explores how Sommer’s reading of poems determines their reception: live reading as a performance codifies eventality, allows us to realise that a poetic statement refers to its act, to its concrete happening and only then, in consequence, to the text of the poem.

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