Dedlain. Cold cigarette -- Celebrating a departure -- Night truck driver -- First snow -- I'm back -- nothing to look for -- Shambles -- The world -- Jonah -- Saturday, an impulse -- "It's cold and black in my letters..." -- Before the elections -- November, almost the end of the world -- Awoken -- Posthumous correspondence -- M -- Black Monday -- First kick -- Song of the awoken -- Song of the ill -- McDonalds -- What's that? -- War, again -- The siege -- Advance -- April 1, Wagrowiec, Poland -- Black July -- Six times Coltrane -- Five religious poems -- Around -- Disambiguating -- Shaving -- Washing up -- Moon -- After night -- Marcin -- Aha -- 3, July, somewhere else, in space -- 5 July -- 21 July -- Evil tongues -- Five poems: Father -- Two words -- Three -- 24 December 2015 -- Stubble -- First poem -- In April 2016 -- Dedlain.
Summary:
"One of the most versatile and rebellious poets in Poland, Marcin Świetlicki takes us into streets, cafes, rooms, and conversations where -- with his signature dark glasses -- he ponders metaphysical questions in the minutiae of daily life. These are poems about life, forgiveness, communication, love, death, and time: in the slit of a mailbox, he sees "Not the light but / the galloping Now." The poems have an urban edge and bite, and Świetlicki has recorded many of them as lyrics with his rock band. The collection, his first to be translated into English, culls work from twelve of his published volumes."-- Publisher description.
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