Halina Poświatowska

Anna Zofia Gąsienica-Byrcyn (Saint Xavier University)

Ed. by Roman Koropeckyj, University of California, Los Angeles
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.8.3: Polish Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Ewa M. Thompson (Rice University)

Dates

Born 9 May 1935
Died 11 Oct 1967
Activity 1956-1967

Places

Born in Poland
Active in Poland; United States

Activities

Primary

Poet

Other

Playwright / Dramatist
Prose writer

Resources

Poświatowska's Works

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Halina Poświatowska (née Helena Myga) was an exceptional postwar Polish poet of love and death. Her erotic, sensual, and confessional poetry was inspired by historical, literary, and mythical figures, by philosophy, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s antiquity collection as well as her own experiences. She also wrote an autobiographical novel,

Opowieść dla przyjaciela

[

A Story for a Friend

], hundreds of letters, and several short stories, all included in the four volumes of her

Dzieła zebrane

[Collected Works] (1998).

In her lifetime Poświatowska published three collections of poems: Hymn bałwochwalczy [Hymn of Idolatry] (1958), Dzień dzisiejszy [Today] (1963), and Oda do rąk [Ode to Hands] (1966). Two more collections of her poems appeared posthumously: Jeszcze jedno wspomnienie

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Citation: Gąsienica-Byrcyn, Anna Zofia. "Halina Poświatowska". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 05 April 2019 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14434, accessed 24 November 2024.]