Tadeusz Rozewicz

TADEUSZ ROZEWICZ was born in 1921 in Radomsko. First poems appeared in 1938. Took part in underground resistance during the war, from 1943-44 as a soldier in the partisan division of the Home Army. In 1944 his first volume of poems was published by an underground press. Noted as the founder of the "Antipoetry" movement in Poland with the rejection of traditional poetic standards. Author of numerous volumes of poetry, plays, and prose. In 1972 his Collected Works were published.