<DIV><p><I>Kopenhaga</I> is the first comprehensive collection of Grzegorz Wróblewski's prose poetry. The lyric narrator in <I>Kopenhaga</I> appears to be in a state of permanent disquiet; he is vulnerable, anxious, self-estranged. We observe his tendency for psychological extremes, his morbid fascination with death and decay, his crippling paranoia and "cosmic loneliness." In <I>Kopenhaga</I> Wróblewski combines two tropes: the immigrant's divided identity and the ethnographer's search for patterns. Next to <I>Paris Spleen</I>, Wróblewski's minimalistic technique, commitment to sincerity, and attention to empirical data link his writings to the objectivist tradition in US poetry, especially William Carlos Williams and Charles Reznikoff, though we also detect parallels with the urban-centered poetry of Charles Bukowski and Ron Padgett.</p><p><I>There is something strange and indecent about people who suddenly dispose of their libraries. Recently, the well-off R. appeared at my door with a carton of books; he is moving and there is no space for them in his new apartment (which is probably bigger than the previous one). This is how Formy by Tadeusz Rózewicz (Czytelnik, Warsaw, 1958, 1st edition) ended up in Christianshavn. Last sentence of the volume: Amid all this hubbub we walk toward silence, toward explanation.</I></p><p><B>Grzegorz Wróblewski</B> was born in 1962 in Gdansk and grew up in Warsaw, Poland. Since 1985 he has lived in Copenhagen. He has published seven volumes of poetry and a collection of short prose pieces in Poland, three books of poetry, a book of poetic prose and an experimental novel (translations) in Denmark, and selected poems in Bosnia-Herzegovina (Mostar, 2002).</p><br></DIV>