"O WIELE WIĘCEJ" POEZJA ANDRZEJA SOSNOWSKIEGO I OBRAZOWOŚĆ
"O WIELE WIĘCEJ [A LOT MORE]" ANDRZEJ SOSNOWSKI'S POETRY AND IMAGERY

Summary/Abstract: The paper explains the differences that lie between the linguistic order and the pictorial order (imagery) in the poetry of Andrzej Sosnowski, one of the most widely known poets who made their debuts after 1989. The starting point of investigations in pictorial elements of the poems is a presentation of Sosnowski's language philosophy, characterised by appreciation of language's bodily beginnings. The subsequent parts of the paper contain descriptions of three cases which show the modes of understanding the picture in this poetic output: first, pictorial items built directly into the poetic collections (Nouvelles impressions d'AmériqueNew Impressions of America), second, a pictorial form of writing (Dom ranA House of Wounds), and third, language imagery (Sylwetki i cienieSilhouettes and Shadows). In each of the above-mentioned volumes Sosnowski employs a unique context (Henri-Achille Zo's illustrations ordered by Raymond Roussel to his Nouvelles impressions d'Afrique, a Maya book known as the Dresden Codex, and a convention of pastoral images typical of Baroque, respectively), and variously arranges the word-image relationships. In the coda, the author gives an overview as well as problematises special cases of such connections. She also formulates a thesis that language imagery and other cases of using such components lead to viewing Sosnowski's poetry not only as an autotelic writing that challenges the "outside" of language. It also enters the collective circulations of fantasy, while pictures and imagery anchor language in firm meaning-images.

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