The Greek word poiesis translates into Polish as 'creating', 'producing', 'making' something new (that is, hitherto non-existent or previously having a different form, embryonic, hidden). The term autopoiesis, on the other hand, means - most generally - the production (or transformation) of oneself. 

The book “Adventures of the Creative Man. Poiesis and autopoiesis” is an attempt to map a vast and heterogeneous thematic field. Its protagonists are artists - poets, prose writers, painters – living in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as our contemporaries. All of them talk (in various contexts, for various purposes, using various conventions) about the experience of creation. The creation of a work and, at the same time, the creation of one's own self.