Kazimierz Wierzyński - *Conversation with the Forest* [first edition, 1929]

Kazimierz WIERZYŃSKI - CONVERSATION WITH THE FOREST

Under the Sign of Poets—New Series; J. Mortkowicz Publishing House, Warsaw 1929. First edition. Dimensions : 18x12 cm; 48 pp. Half-leather binding (scuffs, soiling; two loose pages). Library stamps, underlining in colored pen on the pages.

A poetry collection by K. Wierzyński. The author was a 20th-century Polish poet, prose writer, and essayist. In Wierzyński’s work, *Conversation with the Forest* is an expression of deep reflection on the complexity of life and the world. During the war years, the poet used his poems to lift the spirits of Polish soldiers, urging them to fight for their homeland’s freedom and to preserve humanistic values. Wierzyński captured the tragedy of the situation and the hardships of war, as well as his disappointments and setbacks, in his later, postwar volumes.