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KOSOVEL’s poeticsmand creative participation on the part of the reader. Both cons poems andintegrals refer to vaguely defined categories of literary genre, but preciselyas such trans-genre terms they characterize Kosovel’s poetic and philosophicalconsciousness. The constitutive feature of this consciousness ispolarity, which applies as much to chaos as to the phenomenon of consummateexistence. The latter transcends the representational possibilitiesof poetry. Reproduction of reality is by necessity doomed to uncertainty,which is why the author of cons poems chose a fragment, convinced itmust be a part of some whole entity. In the same way that polarity canexist within a totality, construction is possible as part of destruction andvice versa, for the subjective is coexistent with the objective, microcosmwith macrocosm. The relations between these arise out of connections perpetuallygenerated between the subject and the object and other subjects.For Kosovel the warrant for these ever-emerging connections had alwaysbeen emotion, spirit and reason, all partaking in the process of communication,which is made possible by feelings of compassion and man’s ethicalneeds.Translated by Ana JelnikarNOTES1The cake referred to in the original “gibanica”, layers of pastry filled withcottage cheese and poppy seeds, traditional for the east and south-eastern part ofSlovenia.2See Srečko Kosovel: Zbrano delo (Collected Works). Third volume (part I), ed.by Anton Ocvirk, Ljubljana: DZS, 1977, p. 688.3See Grzegorz Gazda: Słownik europejskich kierunków i grup literackich XXwieku. Warszawa: PWN, 2000, pp. 34–44.4See Seweryna Wysłouch: Literatura a sztuki wizualne. Warszawa: PWN 194,pp. 36–61.5Tadeusz Pepier: Rytm nowoczesny. V: N.: d.: Tędy. Nowe usta. Foreword,commentary, biographical commentary: Stanisław Jaworski. Kraków: WydawnictwoLiterackie, 1972, p. 90.6See Janez Vrečko: Srečko Kosovel, slovenska zgodovinska avantgarda inzenitizem. Maribor: Obzorja, 1986, p. 147.7Srečko Kosovel: Zbrano delo. Vol III (Part I), p. 400.8See, Wielka Encyklopedia Powszechna. T. II. Warszawa: PWN 1963, pp.272–275.9See Matjaž Kmecel: »Torej še enkrat o Srečku Kosovelu«. Jezik in slovstvo1971/72, no. 4: Franc Zdravec: Srečko Kosovel. Koper-Trst: Založba Lipa in Založništvotržaškega tiska, 1986; Boris Paternu: »Slovenski modernizem«. Sodobnost1985, no 11; Janez Vrečko: Srečko Kosovel, slovenska zgodovinska avantgarda inzenitizem.10See Janez Vrečko: »Konstruktivizem, futurizem in branje Kosovelovih konsov«.[1]. Delo 1988, no. 121, [supplement:] Književni listi, s. 4. This differencewas not noted by Anton Ocvirk when he was presenting cons poems and integrals asan undivided whole – see Anton Ocvirk: »Srečko Kosovel in konstruktivizem«. In:172