The article investigates the theme of waste in Kacper Bartczak’s poetry
volume Pokarm suweren [The Sovereign Food]. An introduction outlining the cultural contexts
prefaces the interpretation proper; those contexts are filled with visions of waste
dominant in global imagination. The said interpretation touches upon the issue of subjectivity
in the poems, the understanding of which is conditional upon are contexts of
moving and transforming characteristic of the lifecycle of waste in various spaces. Other
notions interpreted herein are language interceptions frequent in the volume along
with Bartczak’s “notional recycling.” Within the mentioned waste contexts, the author
of the article also places the problem of political and social resounding of the discussed
poems
