Abstract
This study focuses on Adam Borzič, one of the most distinctive contemporary Czech poets. The study contextualises his work within current Czech poetry but also examines his other not strictly art work as though it is cultural work with avantgarde features.
It investigates four volumes of Borzič's work in terms of the changes in the author's creative gesture which expands from his conviction that the world is at a turning point and the avantgarde longing to change the world by poetry. In the four volumes of Borzič's poetry (written so far), this gesture is embodied through delicately intimate, acutely physical, or even gigantically all-embracing positions and he employs motives of the heart, head, hand and mouth.
The study attempts to evaluate the change in Borzič's work in the light of T.S. Eliot's understanding of the social role of poetry and avantgarde longing to change the reality through art.