66 summer 2019 no. 17 Andrzej Sosnowski is one of the most important and infuential modern Polish poets. His work has inspired numerous polemics in the feld of literary criticism, focusing frst on such topics as postmodernism, the death of an author, or exhausting lyric poetry, and later notic- ing such issues as subjectivity, postsecularism, politicalness and engagement. Sosnowski was born in 1959. He published his frst book of poetry, Życie na Korei, in 1992; he has published over a dozen books of poetry, collections of essays and poetic prose, as well as numerous translations (he has translated the work of such authors as Elizabeth Bishop, Roland Firbank, John Ashbery and Arthur Rimbaud) ever since. Te translation context is important for in- terpreting his original works: he often refers to foreign literature, which goes beyond the postmodern textual playfulness. Much has been written about Cover by Sosnowski and its relations with In Memory Of My Feelings by Frank O’Hara; the two texts have been analyzed and compared by Tadeusz Pióro, In Memory of My Feelings Frank O’Hara and Cover Andrzej Sosnowski from the Perspective of Mise en Abyme * Agnieszka Waligóra ORCID: 0000-0002-4316-9207 * Tis research project is fnanced within the programme “Diamentowy Grant” No DI2017/008947: “Nowy auto- tematyzm? Metarefeksja w poezji polskiej po roku 1989”, 2018-2022. Poets, Afects and Common Places: