The paper challenges the common view within the history of Polish literature that schematically places women’s poetry outside modernism and avant-garde. The authoress employs the concept of neo-avant-garde to characterize the so-far omitted poetic projects by women, dismissed to date as marginal or “quasi-avant-garde”. In the article, she demonstrates ways in which Julia Fiedorczuk’s intellectual, self-reflexive and experimental poetry draws upon and refashions the avant-garde tradition.
