'THE LAWS OF NATURE' PLUS SEVERAL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS. HOW WAS RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI'S POETRY VOLUME RECEIVED ('Prawa natury' plus pare innych wzgledów. O przyjeciu tomu poezji Ryszarda Kapuscinskiego)

Literary-critical responses to R. Kapuscinski's recently published verse book 'Prawa natury' (The Laws of Nature) is analysed. Kapuscinski made his debut as a poet, yet his first volume was issued in as late as 1986, and his poetry was always received in a specific manner. This analysis concerns texts known and published after the volume was issued, but before Kapuscinski died. The issue of 'The Other' or 'Alien' is used for the analytical purposes, as the one which took quite a major place in both Kapuscinski's utterances and commentaries on this author in the recent few years.