A Calligraphy of Days: Selected Poems

Verses that oscillate between the turmoil of post-communist Eastern Europe to understated reflections on grief and mortality.

The sixty-four poems in A Calligraphy of Days reflect Krzysztof Siwczyk's wide-ranging and variegated style. Born in 1977, Siwczyk has lived most of his life in the Silesian city of Gliwice. In 1995, he became a wunderkind of the Polish poetry scene with his debut volume Wild Kids, an edgy and unsentimental narrative of youthful tribulations and urban malaise during...