UMALMU - ŁUKASZ WOŹNIAK

Discover the extraordinary world of poetry by Łukasz Woźniak in the collection "Umalmu". It is a journey through the cultivation of plants, ideas, relationships, and communities, where the poet intensifies actions against the catastrophe instead of lamenting it. He takes the side of soft skills, the power of the powerless, relationships in contrast to reason, community instead of ownership. He is not ashamed of tenderness, declares fragility, creating poetry full of bit and lit.

• Intensive action against the catastrophe
• Support for soft skills
• Power of the powerless
• Relationships in contrast to reason
• Community instead of ownership
• Tenderness and fragility in poetry
• Musical and visual poems

The poems from "Umalmu" are reports from the cultivation of plants, ideas, relationships, and communities. The poet does not lament the catastrophe, but intensifies actions against it. He takes the side of soft skills, the power of the powerless, relationships in contrast to reason, community instead of ownership. He is not ashamed of tenderness, declares fragility. Although Dada, Zaum, Surrealism, or Alamunism resonate in the volume, the texts do not boil down to liberated intensities that burst the potentiometers, but carry a message, a vision, even a utopia.

Woźniak's bit and lit-filled poems are musical and visual, ethical and interventionist (but without didacticism and journalism), they feed on Dadaist fragments, but they offer readers a vegan bowl of juicy philosophy. The shamanic poetics of Umalmu break down the boundaries between people, animals, plants, things: the human tirelessly fluctuates into the animal, spills into the plant, reified, machine, conceptual, etc. This activist, excessive, explosive, linguistically swollen poetry is in constant motion, and along the way it grabs everyone and everything.

Published by Biuro Literackie in 2025, the collection has 44 pages and a format of 164x219 mm. The paperback cover adds lightness to it and makes it ideal for reading on the go or in the quiet of your home. Immerse yourself in the world of poetry by Łukasz Woźniak and let yourself be carried away by his extraordinary vision.