night truck driver

One of the most versatile and rebellious poets in Poland, wietlicki takes us into streets, cafes, rooms, and conversations where with his signature dark glasses he ponders metaphysical questions in the minutiae of daily life. These are poems about life, forgiveness, communication, love, death, and time: in the slit of a mailbox, he sees Not the light but / the galloping Now. The poems have an urban edge and bite, and wietlicki has recorded many of them as lyrics with his rock band. The collection, his first to be translated into English, culls work from all twelve of his published volumes.