Trio

Jacek Łukasiewicz

Jacek Łukasiewicz’s "Tercet" is a brilliant collection of poetic miscellanea, a treat for seekers of literary forms – a tracker of rare species, a connoisseur of unusual stanzas, an attentive listener to lyrical voices, rhythms, and melodies. However, woe to anyone who, after "Limericks," "Rhymes," and "Poems for V…" – would expect fodder for academic professionals. To tame nebulous drapes, tempting xenias, or whimsical saucepans, to uncover what connects the goddess Eos with a pink-nosed useful farm animal, one needs something that cannot be found in entries of the Dictionary of Literary Genres and Types or in normative poetics. So, when you, dear Reader, pick up this little book, remember: one reads it properly who has a sense of humor and no lack of self-irony. He who laughs last will not be the last to laugh.

"Tercet is a book half-jest, half-serious. Why? The answers are between the covers." - Paweł Mackiewicz

Jacek Łukasiewicz (1934). Poet, outstanding literary critic, essayist, literary historian. Author of many literary critical and poetic books. Member of the Silesius Award jury. Lives in Wrocław.