The article investigates the theme of waste in Kacper Bartczak’s poetry volume Pokarm suweren [The Sovereign Food]. An introduction outlining the cultural contexts prefaces the interpretation proper; those contexts are filled with visions of waste dominant in global imagination. The said interpretation touches upon the issue of subjectivity in the poems, the understanding of which is conditional upon are contexts of moving and transforming characteristic of the lifecycle of waste in various spaces. Other notions interpreted herein are language interceptions frequent in the volume along with Bartczak’s “notional recycling.” Within the mentioned waste contexts, the author of the article also places the problem of political and social resounding of the discussed poems.
The article investigates the theme of waste in Kacper Bartczak’s poetry volume Pokarm suweren [The Sovereign Food]. An introduction outlining the cultural contexts prefaces the interpretation proper; those contexts are filled with visions of waste dominant in global imagination. The said interpretation touches upon the issue of subjectivity in the poems, the understanding of which is conditional upon are contexts of moving and transforming characteristic of the lifecycle of waste in various spaces. Other notions interpreted herein are language interceptions frequent in the volume along with Bartczak’s “notional recycling.” Within the mentioned waste contexts, the author of the article also places the problem of political and social resounding of the discussed poems.
The article discusses the issue of waste and trash in the poetic volumes Nie [Them] and Siła niższa (full hasiok) [The Lower Force (Full Trash)] by Konrad Góra. Zygmunt Bauman’s “human waste” category and present-day class inequalities are the starting point for the interpretation. In particular, the linguistic and formal shaping of the discussed volumes and the ways of representing Baumanian “human wasteˮare analysed. The language and materiality of Siła niższa are compared to a “dumpsiteˮconceived of as a space of expression of individuals excluded from global dialogue. Nie is discussed as a non-subjective representation of a catastrophe devoid of witnesses, which bears signs of the essence of all destructive phenomena of late capitalism.