Anna Świrszczyńska
Anna Świrszczyńska (born the February 7th 1909 with Warsaw, Poland - died the September 30th 1984 with Cracow, Poland) was a Polish poetess , whose works touch a large variety of topics, among which its experiment during the Second world war, maternity, the female body or sensuality.
Biography
Anna Świrszczyńska was born with Warsaw and, girl of an artist, was high in poverty. It started to publish its poems in the Années 1930. For the period of the occupation Nazi E of the Poland it joined the Polish Résistance and engaged as military nurse during the Insurrection of Warsaw.
Anna wrote then for clandestine publications. It crossed difficult moments, as that where it remained, one day, during one hour, in waiting of its execution. Czesław Miłosz knew it at that time, and he wrote some pages on her. With Leonard Nathan, it translated into English Conversations with my body ( Talking to my Body ), which was published in the the United States in 1996 (see the quotation below).
Its experiments during the war strongly influenced its poetry much. In 1974, it published By building the barricade , a book which describes the pain and the suffering that it tested or of which it was pilot for this painful period.
She also wrote frank manner about the female body during the various stages of the life.
Anna Świrszczyńska died with Cracow the September 30th 1984 at the 73 years age.
Works
Among the collections of poems of Anna Świrszczyńska, one can quote:-
1970 : Wind
- 1972: I am a woman
- 1974: By building the barricade
- 1978: Happy like the tail of the dog
- 1985: Pain and Joie
- 1996: Conversations with my body
Sources
- This article is partly the English translation of the article of Wikipédia: “Anna Świrszczyńska”
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