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The surname of the 20^th century Polish poet Anna Świrszczyńska is often abbreviated to Swir for western readers who might struggle with the pronunciation. Her large volume of written work deals with many diverse topics, such as the Polish struggles during the Second World War (a good example being Building the Barricade, detailing her experiences during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis. She also writes about “feminine” matters such as motherhood, the sensuality of a woman and the female body.

Anna Świrszczyńska was born some time in 1909 in the capital city of Warsaw, the daughter of an impoverished artist. She grew up in virtual poverty and had to interrupt her education in order to work. She supported herself as she grew older, managing to attend university where she studied medieval Polish literature. By the 1930s she was working for a teachers’ association and at this time got some of her poetry published.

Any career aspirations she may have had at that time though were, of course, cruelly interrupted in 1939 when the Nazis invaded Poland, thus precipitating World W

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Brief Poems by Anna Swir

Anna Swir (1909-1984), the name by which the Polish poet Anna Świrszczyńska is known in the English-speaking world, was born in the capital city, Warsaw. Her father, Jan Świrszczyński, was an avant-garde painter and her mother was a former singer who had given up a professional career to take care of her family. Anna Swir’s Poems About My Father and My Mother (unpublished until after her death) relate the story of her early childhood as the family moved from home to home within Warsaw. She grew up in virtual poverty and had to interrupt her education in order to work. She supported herself as she grew older, managing to attend university where she studied medieval and baroque Polish literature. By the 1930s, when her first poems were being published, she was working for a teachers’ association. In 1934, her poem “Noon” was awarded first prize in a poetry competition sponsored by Literary News. In 1936 she published her first book, Poems and Prose. These early brief poems, writes Czeslaw Milosz in his introduction to Ta

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Polish Poetry Unites is a video series complementing our Encounters with Polish Literature series for anyone interested in literature, poetry in particular, history, and reading. In each episode, Edward Hirsch, a distinguished American poet, and the president of the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, will introduce a celebrated Polish poet to American audiences.

Anna Świrczynska (Swir) would have been 114, had she been still alive. She would probably be surprised that her voice from over half a century ago is still heard in the world, and even more in the world than in her native Poland. She represented a free spirit of feminism without a drop of anger, some people say, and her ideas are still appealing to many feminists and women in general who do not necessary think of themselves as feminists.

“Anna Świrczynska is a remarkable poet. She was born in 1909 in Warsaw. She’s of the same generation as Czesław Miłosz. Her father was a painter. They were very poor. Her father must have been eccentric too, because in