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Book · 2015
To Feed the Stone
Nakarmić kamieńThrough a striking cycle of minimalist prose poems narrated from a child's intense, defamiliarized perspective, this debut collection examines the tactile relationships between living beings and inanimate household objects. Interrogating adult rationales, grief, and mortality, the poems invest everyday matter with profound emotional resonance.
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An extraordinary book. One of those that gets inside you and stays there. It cannot be described; it simply has to be read. What am I saying, read? Savored, relishing every single word. The "Nike" award was thoroughly deserved. In my personal ranking, it is just as superb as W. Myśliwski's "Widnokrąg", even though they belong to completely different literary genres.
Dariusz Karbowiak on Lubimyczytać I understand that the Nike Award was debatable, but this book really resonated with me. A slim volume of short stories (poems? prose poems?) that you nonetheless read slowly, attentively, carefully, and over a long time. Some are piercingly sad, while others evoke a sense of unease or deep reflection. I have never read anything quite like this.
magda949 on Lubimyczytać Once again, I succumbed to a trivial impulse, because my attention was caught not by a review or even the cover, but simply by the fact that the author uses a diminutive form of her first name. And once again, I was rewarded, even though such pettiness asks for punishment. I fell in love with this prose. It captivated me with its sensitivity and the sublime quality of its metaphors. A truly gorgeous text.
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