Though his poems contain numerous literary and cultural references, he is not an “esthetic” poet like, say, Zbigniew Herbert or Adam Zagajewski. Though Dycki's poems are intensely personal, they are not so in the obvious sense that one finds in the poetry of Czesław Miłosz or Wisława Szymborska. And though Dycki's writing is firmly rooted in historical context, this dimension too is recast in a way not found in other Polish poets either of his own or preceding generations.