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Warszawa 2003
© Sic!
135 x 205
68 pages
paperback
ISBN 83-88807-15-3
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Jarosław Marek RymkiewiczSunset in Milanówek
Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz's poetry exhibits a characteristic that is rare in today's times: the masterful combination of the traditional rhymes and rhythms of the Polish lyric with the thoroughly contemporary consciousness, full of doubt and uncertainty, of a man living at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Perhaps this is precisely why his work enjoys popularity among both sophisticated connoisseurs and readers with no expert literary background.
In Sunset in Milanówek, he chooses as his theme the immediate neighbourhood in which he lives. Once a district of summer homes on the outskirts of Warsaw, Milanówek now becomes a stage where ordinary, everyday events assume an almost cosmic significance, or at least serve as subjects for philosophical reflection. Cats, nettles, and dustbins join in a procession that also includes Schubert's music, Mandelstam's stick, and a God such as cats dream of. Set in motion by the poet's imagination, this procession breaks into a mad dance of transformation. The altered states of existence do not appear to be definitive, but more like stages in a transition towards some other, unknown form of existence.
As Rymkiewicz writes of himself, but surely of others as well:
"A letter to the afterlife—I am that letter."
With a wealth of life experience and knowledge of the work of the Polish Romantic sages, of whom he writes as if they were close friends, Rymkiewicz has a fascinating ability perhaps not to tame, but to confront the most exotic phenomena from the reality in which we are all guests.
Marcin Baran
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