“Uroda świata się nie kończy”: The poetry of Jacek Łukasiewicz

Abstract

The sketch is an attempt to present Jacek Łukasiewicz’s poetry against the background of the poet’s biography divided into three phases, related to the places where Łukasiewicz lived at different times: Sulistrowa, a village located in the Beskid Foothills, where he spent his childhood; Leszno, where he moved with his family in 1945 and graduated from high school, making long lasting friendships with Stanisław Grochowiak or Teodor Krupkowski; and finally Wrocław, where the poet lived continuously since 1951. Adopting a perspective close to geopoetics made it possible to focus attention on the geographical details contained in Jacek Łukasiewicz’s poems and analyze their biographical and cultural references.