Grzegorz Wróblewski
FATHER AND FISH
My father was eliminated long ago
microbes.
Who he was, what he thought, what he wanted me to live
Tell me?
I don't remember any of this. He took me once
fishing.
I caught 2 fences and he caught a small one.
pike.
That's all I remember. My father.
long ago, they liquidated
microbes.
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Grzegorz Wróblewski (born 1962) is simply a author and visual arts artist. He published books with poems, prose, drama, essays and asemic writing, among others: Life’s Squidness (1992/2002), New Colony (2007), Hotel cats (2010), Governor (2015), Contact places (2018), Hunting (2022), Summer rituals (2022), Sky and Joints (2023), Spartacus. Literature – art – aesthetics. Sketches from your stay on earth (2024) and Gregory (2024). He was translated into respective languages: among others, in the United States he published collections Let’s Go Back to the Mainland (2014) and Zero Visibility (2017), in Bosnia and Herzegovina Pjesme (2002), in Denmark the election of poems Digte (2015) and Cindys Vugge (2016), and in the Czech Republic Hansenovic vana (2018). With Wojtek Wilczyk (photographs) he published artbook Blue Pueblo (2015), with Bobi Peru – evidence Project1 (2005) and with Paweł “Kelner” Rozwodowski – a evidence Unrepentant (2021). He presented paintings/installations/objects at many collective and individual exhibitions in Denmark, large Britain, Germany and Poland. Born in Gdańsk, in 1966–85 he lived in Warsaw, since 1985 his town is Copenhagen.
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Free row is the space of Liberté!, taking into account important, most progressive and dynamic changes in Polish poesy of fresh years. Poems will respond to current events, but besides avoid them erstwhile times require political silence, and passions are not a good advisor in interpreting reality.
Editorial by Rafał Gavin
