Joanna Pollakówna

Anna Zofia Gąsienica-Byrcyn (Saint Xavier University)

Ed. by Roman Koropeckyj, University of California, Los Angeles
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.8.3: Polish Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Ewa M. Thompson (Rice University)

Dates

Born 1 Jun 1939
Died 28 Jun 2002
Activity 1958-2002

Places

Born in Poland
Active in Poland

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Poet

Other

Children's/Young Adult writer
Essayist

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Joanna Pollakówna was an art historian, a poet, and an essayist. Her lyrical poems stemmed from the world of visual arts by which she was captivated as an art historian. She produced

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, or poems about paintings

using language to describe the visual arts. Her poems “‘Pietà’ Tycjana” [“Titian’s ‘Pietà’”]

and “‘Pietà’ Belliniego” [“Bellini’s ‘Pietà’”]

are just two examples.

She also wrote lyrical verses about poetry and the relation between the poet and the text that Mateusz Antoniuk compares to the philosophical theories of Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida (in Kozłowska & Zieliński, 99–109).

Pollakówna published twelve collections of poetry (gathered in the volume Wiersze zebrane [Collected Poems], edited by Jan Zieliński and issued

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Citation: Gąsienica-Byrcyn, Anna Zofia. "Joanna Pollakówna". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 06 January 2020 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14451, accessed 23 November 2024.]