Urszula Kozioł
Urszula Kozioł (born 20 June 1931) 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 ("Blocks of rubber", 1957), but her second, W rytmie korzeni ("In the Rhythm of the Roots", 1963), 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[s] housework or domestic life through motifs of violence and estrangement." 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". She began editing the magazine Odra in 1968. She has also written stage and radio dramas for adults and children. Bibliography Poetry Gumowe klocki (Związek Literatów Polskich, Oddział we Wrocławiu, 1957)