Rafał Wojaczek

[1] His short career took place during the turbulent years of modern Poland when the younger generation began to realize that they were trapped in a mendacious political system.

Other Polish poets and writers with comparable biographies include Edward Stachura, Marek Hłasko and Tadeusz Borowski.

By placing the physicality and sexuality of the individual in the context of the practical and political he achieves a depth of erotic and existential expression.

His work has been compared by some to that of Lautréamont and Rimbaud, but was strongly connected with international trends of his time, particularly confessional poetry and the Beats.

His earlier work was chiefly what Robert Lowell would have referred to as "raw," but his late style became well "cooked," with increasing attention to structure and subtle rhyme schemes using for example assonance between related (but not identical) Polish vowels, with no loss of emotional intensity.