„A mad step into the Unknown”: Krzysztof Kuczkowski’s Path towards a New (Religious) Poetry
Przemysław DAKOWICZ
Department of 20th-and 21st-Century Polish Literature, Institute of Polish Philology and Logopaedics, Faculty of Philology, University of Lodz, ul. Pomorska 171/173, 90-236 Łódź, Poland , Polandhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7477-2535
Abstract
The author of the article attempts to examine the meanders of meta-poetic reflection developed by Krzysztof Kuczkowski, one of the most important contemporary religious poets, as well as the founder and long-standing editor-in-chief of the bimonthly literary magazine Topos. In his numerous critical and literary texts (reviews, essays, theoretical articles), not only does Kuczkowski react to the most important phenomena within Polish metaphysical or openly confessional poetry, but also—passing through successive stages of creative consciousness—builds the framework of his own poetics. The result of this process is an original theory of the poem formulated by Kuczkowski, reflecting the experiences of the consecutive phases of the writer’s spiritual and artistic development.
Keywords:
Polish literary criticism of the 20th century, Polish poetry of the 20th century, Krzysztof Kuczkowski, literature and religion, literature and theologyDepartment of 20th-and 21st-Century Polish Literature, Institute of Polish Philology and Logopaedics, Faculty of Philology, University of Lodz, ul. Pomorska 171/173, 90-236 Łódź, Poland https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7477-2535
