page_title: Halina Poświatowska
section_title: Literary heritage
hierarchical_section_title: Halina Poświatowska / Literary heritage
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture of the Poetry House - Museum of Halina Poświatowska at 23 Jasnogórska Str., Częstochowa - outside view. Polski: Dom Poezji - Muzeum Haliny Poświatowskiej w Częstochowie od zewnątrz. فارسی: عکسی نمای بیرونی «خانه شعر - موزه هالینا پوشویاتووسکا در زادگاهش شهر چستوهووای لهستان. Esperanto: Foto de la Poezia Domo - Muzeo de Halina Poświatowska ĉe 23 Jasnogórska Str., Częstochowa - ekstere.
context_page_description: Halina Poświatowska was a Polish poet and writer, one of the most important figures in modern/contemporary Polish literature.
  Poświatowska is famous for her lyrical poetry, and for her intellectual, passionate yet unsentimental poetry on the themes of death, love, existence, famous historical personages, especially women, as well as her mordant treatment of life, living, being, bees, cats and the sensual qualities of loving, grieving and desiring.
context_section_description: Her works have been collected in the four-volume Dzieła (Works), published by Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków, Poland, 1997, of which the first two volumes (several hundred pages) are poems, and the latter two prose and letters, respectively. She is the subject of several scholarly books and many reprints. Her popularity as a poet continues unabated in Poland, and new translations have increased her importance to world literature. If her own poem content, as well as her own poetry translations are any indication, she was influenced by Ezra Pound, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Federico García Lorca, Jacques Prévert, and a bevy of Slovene poets: Kajetan Kovič, Jože Udovič, Saša Vegri, Dane Zajc, as well as the classical Greek philosopher Aristotle, bees, cats, the color red, the texture of fur, Metropolitan Museum of Art's antiquity collections, and her contemporary Black American (Negro) city culture – in particular, the people of New York City, in Harlem.
caption: The Poetry House - Museum of Halina Poświatowska in Częstochowa, fot. Ivonna Nowicka
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