Description
Poetry. Translated from the Polish by Piotr Florczyk. "'War made me another person,' said Anna Świrszczyńska. BUILDING THE BARRICADE is the outcome of that change in that it took thirty years for these experiences to find their way into language. But the poem is also, undoubtedly, an agent of change, for us well as her. Stanza by stanza we see the speaker transformed, stripped of anything but the terrible truths she is recording."—Eavan Boland
Author Bio
Anna Świrszczyńska was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1909. She attended Warsaw University where she studied medieval and baroque Polish literature. She began publishing poems in the 1930s. During the Nazi occupation of Poland, Świrszczyńska joined the Polish Resistance and was a military nurse during the Warsaw Uprising. Świrszczyńska died in Krakow of cancer in 1984.
Author City: WARSAW POL