BRONIEWSKI W. - Dymes over the city. 1927. with a cover by M. Szczuki.

BRONIEWSKI Władysław - Dymy nad miasta. Warsaw 1927. księg. "Książka". 16d, pp. 63, [1]. broch.
Now o. III.4.24; Czekalski illustr. 19; ZPW 303; Straus 7. Spine taped, staining of front cover and first page, supplemented loss of corners of several pages, staining of lower edge of last pages. One page missing (pp. 13-14) with the poem "To comrades in arms" (concerning the May coup) - the page removed by the censors (inf. after F. Lichodziejewska "Twórczość Władysława Broniewskiego", War. 1973, s. 110). The title of the poem was left in the table of contents. The second independent volume of poems by Broniewski, after the debut "Windmills" of 1925 (in 1925 "3 salvos" was published. - a joint work by R. Stande, W. Wandurski and W. Broniewski). Mieczyslaw Szczuka 's cover using photomontage - a leading example (next to the cover of "Earth to the Left") of "poesoplastic" composition. The original design is preserved in the collection of the Museum of Art in Lodz. Infrequent.
"Relatively the most interesting photomontage by Szczuka from the last period of his work can be found on the cover of the poetry collection [...] 'Dymy nad miasta', published in 1927 [...]. The juxtaposition of the photo depicting the interiors of the factory with military-themed photographs corresponds with the revolutionary-soldier rhetoric of Broniewski's poems [...]. In addition to the subject of political prisoners, an important theme of the poetry collected in 'Smokes over the City,' more or less processed in poetic form, is the May Coup, in which Broniewski was actively involved. His poems are an expression of the hopes that communists placed in this coup, siding with Pilsudski: hopes for the legalization of the Communist Party of Poland (KPP), and therefore also the release of imprisoned activists" (Czekalski, pp. 91-92). ...