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Jan Twardowski (b. 1915) published his
first volume of poetry in 1936, but real recpgnition came to him one war
(he was a resistance fighter), one priest vocation and more than two
decades later. His poetry makes sacred the secular and ordinary; his
work is marked by a sense of humor and a conscious simplicity within his
masterful craftsmanship, a simple expression of tongue-in-cheek
theological ruminations and tenderness and love towards an imperfect
Creation. "If St. Francis were a contemporary poet, he would write
the way that Jan Twardowski writes," observes the poet Anna
Kamienska.
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| Karol Wojtyla (b. 1920),
actor, scholar, quarry worker, poet, priest, playwright, pope, is the
author of many poems (usually signed with either of his pen names,
Andrzej Jawien or Stanislaw Andrzej Gruda), six highly complex plays,
numerous essays, and several works of philosophy.
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