Dawid Juraszek

Medea and Other Poems of the Anthropocene Dawid Juraszek

Titled after figures from the classical world, these poems are set in all-too-modern scenarios: a natural world that is tainted and diminishing, rising sea levels encroaching on land masses, ancient civilizations lost to the 'dead-end new, ' climate change, and the cost of human consumption. Dawid Juraszek's spare, clean style of writing is refreshing; his imagery sharply carved and original. Each page is a revelation, sometimes startling, but never sermonizing. Serious and thought-provoking, this book will stay with you long after reading-a promising English language debut by a talented, authentic voice.

-Annest Gwilym, editor of Nine Muses Poetry

Reading these poems, one is at once struck by their power and their fierce imagination. Dawid Juraszek has mastered the English language to an extent where he has freed himself from it, as it were inventing his own imagery. His poems are like concentrated but epic stories, written while traveling. And this shows: the poems are similar to musical annotations, accompanying the exotic landscapes, modern cities, and complex societies Juraszek has encountered on his travels. He could have written journalistic travel stories, but he understood the strength of poetry and its dominance over prose.

-Guido Eekhaut, author of Absinthe and Purgatory

As humanity rises from its dogmatic slumber to a world where concrete jungle and marine reserve are just two sides of the same coin, making sense of the proliferation of anthroposcenes has never been more imperative. In this collection, Dawid Juraszek dives into the depths of ancient myth, contrasting its heroes and monsters with our own, and offering us glimpses of a future where man is not master of the world, but its partner.

-Sascha Engel, editor of Strukturriss