Aperture

The poet brings his fascination with formal poetry to 21st century subjects internet culture, science, postmodern architecture even as he also explores intimacy, gay love, and emotionally-charged objects in this bilingual (Polish/English) collection. Dehnels range of style and diction includes poems based on the classic Polish thirteen-syllable line and intricate rhyming stanzas, to prose poems and freer lyrics. My restlessness is one of my strongest traitsthat insatiability for places, books, paintings, people, he says.