SOURCE: A review of Niepokój, in World Literature Today, Vol. 55, No. 3, Summer, 1981, p. 498.

In the following review, Carls discusses the different styles Różewicz employs in his poetry.

It is the policy of Polish publishers to print a few thousand copies of a work, thus making frequent reissues necessary. In 1971 a volume containing the complete poetic works of Różewicz was published. Today Ossolineum presents us with [Niepokój] an extensive selection of the poet's works through his 1969 Regio. One might regret that the present edition does not include poems from the later volume Opowiadanie traumatyczne: Duszyczka (A Traumatic Tale; 1979). One might also regret its format, a paperback without introduction or comments. A critical edition or at least a publisher's foreword would have been very useful, for Różewicz is at the same time a very well-known poet and a difficult one (see BA 50:1, p. 103).

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