An internet encyclopedia CYCLOPEDIA.NET puts me together with the Polish actress Joanna Kurowska—as if we were one person! So I’m using my social media platforms to clarify this. Hey, Joanna Kurowska-poet and Joanna Kurowska-actress are TWO DIFFERENT PERSONS!!!
Morality is ecological. The Wall Street bankers who played irresponsibly with the mortgage loans possibly represent the first generation of people who have been brought in the cancerous thought-branch of postmodernism saying that morality has been but a political construct and hence has no application in public activities. True, systems of power used (or mis-used) morality for their own ends—but morality is simply the ability to coexist harmoniously within a community and the environment. A sense of civic responsibility is surely an aspect of morality. Maybe we need to revisit classical virtues?
© Joanna Kurowska
“Everywhere marble, the visible grandeur of marble, pink and gray marble, veined and tinted as flayed corrupting flesh,—all these provided agreeable distractions from a rather frightening solitude of a poet,” says Tennessee Williams‘s Lord Byron, in Camino Real)
Poem “Mother” in Poetry Nook Magazine (Plum White Press LLC, Vol.4).
This poem has previously appeared in The Wall & Beyond (eLectio Publishing 2013).
Questions, not answers: “Poetry often comes from the feeling that something is not right and from the moral obligation such feeling implies. But there must be also the element of wonder, at the things I write about, at the world that surrounds them, at life that reflects on both, and at language that tries to depict all that.”
JOANNA KUROWSKA 