Urszula Kozioł

Urszula Kozioł

Urszula Kozioł (born 20 June 1931)[1] is a Polish poet.

Kozioł was born in Rakówka, a village in Poland.[1] She attended high school in Zamość[2] and graduated from the University of Wroclaw in 1953.[3]

Her debut poetry collection was Gumowe klocki ("Blocks of rubber", 1957), but her second, W rytmie korzeni ("In the Rhythm of the Roots", 1963), is considered her breakthrough.[4] Of her 1963 poem "Recipe for the Meat Course", translator Karen Kovacik writes that it "functions simultaneously as an ars poetica and an ironic riposte to those who believed a woman's place was in the kitchen" and "depict[s] housework or domestic life through motifs of violence and estrangement."[5]

Her novel Postoje pamięci ("Stations of Memory", 1965) focuses on Mirka, the daughter of a teacher, growing up in a small village during World War II. In his survey of Polish literature, Czesław Miłosz wrote that it was "One of the most authentic testimonies on the village".[6]

She began editing the magazine Odra in 1968.[4] She has also written stage and radio dramas for adults and children.[3]

Bibliography

Poetry

Prose

Essays

Drama

References

  1. 1 2 Wilson, Katharina M. (1991). An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780824085476.
  2. Kozioł, Urszula (1989). Poems (Urszula Koziol). Host Publications, Inc. ISBN 9780924047022.
  3. 1 2 France, Anna Kay; Corso, Paula Jo (1993). International Women Playwrights: Voices of Identity and Transformation : Proceedings of the First International Women Playwrights Conference, October 18-23, 1988. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810827820.
  4. 1 2 "Urszula Koziol (poet) - Poland - Poetry International". www.poetryinternationalweb.net. Retrieved 2017-05-16.
  5. Kovacik, Karen. "Beyond the static of language, experience, and history: four polish poets." The Southern Review, vol. 52, no. 1, 2016, p. 47+
  6. Miłosz, Czesław (1983). The History of Polish Literature. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520044777.
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