Urszula Kozioł


Urszula Kozioł is a Polish poet. In 2011, she was a recipient of the Silesius Poetry Award.

Biography

Kozioł was born in Rakówka, a village in Poland. She attended high school in Zamość and graduated from the University of Wroclaw in 1953.
Her debut poetry collection was Gumowe klocki, but her second, W rytmie korzeni, is considered her breakthrough. 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 housework or domestic life through motifs of violence and estrangement."
Her novel Postoje pamięci 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".
She began editing the magazine Odra in 1968. She has also written stage and radio dramas for adults and children.

Poetry