Abstract
Jacek Bierezin (born 1947 in Lodz) is a young Polish poet belonging to the generation which, in the course of the sixties, became increasingly disillusioned with official propaganda and whose poetry is full of irony and sarcasm. His first collection, Lekcja liryki (‘A Poetry Lesson’) appeared in 1972; his second, Warn (‘To You’), had been accepted by the publishing house but was banned by the censor before it could go into print. It is from this book, published last year by the Polish emigre Instytut Literacki in Paris, that the poems below have been taken.