 | By: Wojciech Plocharski Binding: Paperback Publisher: Cyberwit.net ISBN: 8182530067 ISBN-13: 9788182530065 Released: 02 Jun 2004 RRP: Average Rating:  |
You need not write thick books to understand how to move forward in literature.
The most important is fuel.
Diplomatic Rebel On Creaky Bicycle, p. 11
Plocharski’s mind seizes & stores up numberless feelings & images, & he is able to convert the ‘fuel’ to his witty & satiric portrayal of the distempers & ‘the strange disease of modern life’ (Matthew Arnold), & ‘the immense panorama of futility & anarchy which is contemporary history’ (T. S. Eliot).
Plocharski’s excellence lies in the fact that he is “on the move \ For next centuries” (“Saddling Time”). The fundamental & indispensable thing required for any kind of freedom & progress is avoidance of “talk talll behind iron curtain”:
Talll Orators! If you do not raise the curtain,
You will not hear theatre ovation!
“Talll Talk Theatre”, Diplomatic Rebel On Creaky Bicycle, p.18
Plocharski is always lifted up with the vigour of his own style. This is visible in the energy & passion of his flawless phraseology & precision of language in Faster Than Light And Other Bagatelles:
‘Toothless biting is a kind of kiss’.
‘Amateurishness-weapon of mass destruction’.
‘Their manipulations are sewn with so thick thread
That we couldn’t clean our teeth using it.’
‘Promote women. You will limit weight of ayatollahs…’
The essential fact to remember about Plocharski’s poetry is that he sets his mind free to expand its inner powers, & consequently we feel that Fancy ‘glows divinely there’ in such lines: ‘We cannot isolate anything that we don’t understand…
What about starry sky?’(“Starry-Eyed Robots”)
No doubt, Plocharski’s poetry penetrates, & reaches truths through halllowing power of imagination, which is a ‘prophetic action of the mind’. Poetry, says F. R. Leavis, “can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety & precision unapproachable by any means.” This is evident in Plocharski’s Million In My Pocket. These poems have an undeniable force & enlarge our conception of imaginative adventure. I trust that the new century would recognize the presence of genius & inspiration in such lines: ‘Closed at hand, army of ants \ crowds in plundered library’s \ inside (“Barcelona Abstraccio”}, “Looking down we see \ we are in a different world’ ( Peaks of Caucasus”), ‘We leave the city with invisible arrows’ ( “Piccadily”}, ‘My cap is on my head, but thoughts among the clouds’ ( “Andersen’s Hat” ). “Peaks of Caucasus” makes us aware of the horror of war:
The ruins & debris of destructions.
Their roofs are already overgrown
By vegetation. Practicallly,
There aren’t houses
Without traces of bullets on gates.
… … …
The dust-everywhere.
The title poem “Million In My Pocket” is a profound comment on the creative powers of the ‘pen’:
My secret is simple.
I have a pen.
The psychic drama of the whole Million In My Pocket is enclosed within these two lines. Plocharski’s energy, passion & satirical power reveal that he is undoubtedly a powerful force in world poetry, & one of the most individual poets.
-Santosh Kumar
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