PIĘTAK Stanisław
SPRING CLOUDS
On front cover dedication dated May 9, 1938 from the author to Edward Kozikowski.
Warsaw 1938, published by F.Hoesick Bookstore, pp.40; format 15.5x23 cm, softcover.
Condition BDB-/ upper right corner bent, NICE piece
Stanislaw Piętak (born August 3, 1909 in Wielowieś, died January 27, 1964 in Warsaw) - Polish poet and prose writer.
His poetry is the result of the culture shock experienced by a young peasant raised in traditional rural culture with the principles of the avant-garde poetry of Peiper and Przyboś. He studied Polish Studies at Jagiellonian University, and after dropping out of school went to Warsaw, where he worked for the Union of Polish Writers and was active in youth magazines.
In 1938 he published a novel, "The Youth of Jas Kunefal," and received the Young People's Prize of the Polish Academy of Literature for it. During World War II he stayed in Wielowieś, cooperated with the "Odwet" organization of Władysław Jan Jasiński "Jędrus" and participated in secret teaching. From 1944 he took part in social and political activities.
A year later he moved to Lodz, where he became president of the local branch of the Polish Writers' Union. From 1956 he lived in Warsaw, where he worked in the editorial office of the "Tygodnik Kulturalny". He married Aleksandra Kosińska; his son was Piotr Piętak. He died by suicide, jumping out of a window on January 27, 1964. He was buried in the Military Cemetery at Powązki in Warsaw (cemetery section C2-9-15)[1].
Edward Kozikowski (born November 13, 1891 in Warsaw, died September 14, 1980 in Katowice) is a Polish poet and prose writer.
