Parallel Worlds: On Bilingualism and Cultural Polyphony in the Poetry of Andrzej Busza

The article discusses Andrzej Busza’s poetry from a bilingual and bicultural perspective. Such a rare mode of artistic writing grew out of the poet’s political exile and his professional involvement with English culture and literature. Two linguistic periods in Busza’s poetical biography are distinguished and the parallel use of two literary traditions is underscored in the article to describe Busza’s poetry as an original contemporary example of cultural universalism.