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English translation of the title: Deaths Close to Me
The volume is divided into titled sections: 'zamiast wstępu' [instead of a preface], 'takie czasy' [such are the times], 'moja idolomania' [my idols], 'post mortem', 'wokół nieuniknionego' [around the unavoidable] and 'cudze wyczekiwanie' [another's waiting].
Contents
* Contents derived from the Perth,Western Australia,:Polish Australian Cultural Society (WA) Inc.,2008 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The poem addresses death, asking who she is (the Polish word for death, 'śmierć', is a feminine noun), where she lives, in short, to explain herself, asserting that the poet will then stop writing about her.
