Autoportret wiersza. Wokół autotematycznej poezji kobiet
The poem’s self-portrait. On women’s self-referential poetry

Author(s): Joanna Grądziel-Wójcik
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Poetry, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Polish contemporary poetry; self-referential writing; meta-poetics; meta-reflection; women's poetry; interpretation; versification
Summary/Abstract: It is difficult to find a female poet who has not written a self-titled poem. Most comment on the creative process, the understanding and tasks of the art of words, poetry’s relationship to reality or the role of the woman writer. Meta-poetic reflections in the women's texts does not so much serve to problematise the poetic medium and language as direct us towards a reality reinforced by the poem and rooted in personal, psycho-corporeal experience – a world appearing ‘at the tip of the tongue’. Meta-reflection also fosters the self-knowledge of the writer's ‘self’ and its condition, threatened by transience, the modes of history, illness or death. Hence the proposals of ‘disappearance’ as ars poetics by Urszula Kozioł, the meta-poetic description by Joanna Pollakówna, or the ‘out of blue’ self-thematism of Julia Hartwig. Interpretative close-ups also present the meta-poetic projects of Wisława Szymborska (in dialogue with Stanisław Barańczak), Anna Kamieńska, Julia Poświatowska, Bogusława Latawiec, Marzanna Bogumiła Kielar or Julia Fiedorczuk (in juxtaposition with Julian Przyboś), as well as many other contemporary poets."

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