Związki poezji i kultury popularnej : Krzysztof Jaworski, Darek Foks, Szczepan Kopyt i Jaś Kapela

Abstract

The subject of the article constitutes the relations of mass culture and poetry after 1989. On the example of four poets – Krzysztof Jaworski, Darek Foks, Szczepan Kopyt and Jaś Kapela – the author presents changes in perception of these relations, usage and interpretation of mass culture, highlighting the attempts to overcome the Romantic-Modernist ideology of poetry mission and avant-garde cult of an aesthetic autonomy. The enhancement of pop typical of the poetry by Foks and Jaworski, changing radically the writing strategies at the beginning of the 1990s, is not enough in Kapela’s book to reform or redefine the idea of poetry as such. Confirming the existing social order, the author of Reklama is in favour of the capitalist market of idea exchange, however, he himself confirms the most traditional convictions of the poetry in its trivialized highly-modernised version (subject confessionness, lyrical experience, etc.). It happens to a lesser extent in Kopyta’s book though he, radicalizing an anarchising writing strategy, has to preserve the poetry prestige to some extent (when he wants to make his poems unanimously critical towards totalitarian mechanisms of mass culture). Thus, the conclusion is that the popular culture exhausted its potential from freeing crises in the bosom of poetry as an institution.