We have our own poets. On two not-new but developmental discourses of recent decades

Abstract

The article's subject is the presence of discourses known from tradition, which in 21^st-century poetry are connected with the heritage of literature through late modern poetry from the second half of the 20th century. The author argues that given the difficulties of integrating the panorama of the newest poetry, the only option left is to use the form of a "glance" at the main development trends. She describes the specificity of the "crowded" literary scene from a generational perspective, which is characterized by the "effect of reminiscence". In the works of various poets, she looks for evidence of the duration of two selected discourses: elegiac-ironic and traumatic. She selects examples of "gestures of farewell" from senile poetry (Urszula Kozioł, Joanna Kulmowa) and maladic poetry (Jacek Łukasiewicz, Józef Baran, Teresa Ferenc). Traumatic discourse is characterized based on selected works on the pandemic (by Zbigniew Machaj, Aleksander Wierny and others) and the war in Ukraine (by Aneta Kamińska, Marta Podgórnik). In turn, the author places the topic of the Volhynian massacre (taken up by Alicja Bykowska-Salczyńska, among others) in the context of posttraumatic discourse.