Rewindykacje i eskalacje talentów
Talent Claims and Escalations

Summary/Abstract: Review: Formy (nie)obecności. Szkice o współczesnej poezji kobiet. Red. J. Grądziel-Wójcik, A.Karpowicz, E. Sołtys-Lewandowska [Forms of (Un)Presence: Sketches on Contemporary Women’s Poetry], TAiWPN UNIVERSITAS, Kraków 2018. A review of the book Formy (nie)obecności. Szkice o współczesnej poezji kobiet (Forms of (Un)Presence: Sketches on Contemporary Women’s Poetry) published in 2018 and devoted to the works of women poets, both famous ones and those erased from the twentieth-century poetic canon. The reviewer underlines the importance of the project, which seeks to include women’s output into the mainstream narration on the transformations of Polish poetry – not as a supplement of any kind but as an enterprize that respects the thematic and formal independence of women’s poetry. Some female scholars who partook in the project postulate the necessity of rejecting the criterion of equivalent diction applied to women’s idioms in comparison to that of men’s idioms (the case of Julia Hartwig), which would legitimize women’s poets membership in the canon, while others incline toward the strategy of claiming niches (the case of Joanna Pollakówna’s private genre of pytalik, “little questioner”). Some scholars propose notions that appear to self-characterizing (priestess, witchy, provocative, mystic). All articles in the volume deliver on the promise of appreciation women’s poetry and capturing it as engaged and intervening, but also obligated to persistently support the weakest.

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