Kamienska came of age during the horrors of the Nazi occupation of Poland and lived under Communism.
Still, her poetry expresses a fundamentally religious sense of gratitude for her own existence and that of other human beings, as well as for myriad creatures, such as hedgehogs, birds and young leaves willing to open up to the sun..
Other Poems explore the meaning of loss, grief, and human life.
Her spiritual quest has resulted in extraordinary Poems on Job, other biblical personalities, and victims of the Holocaust.
Her Poems record the struggles of a rational mind with religious faith, addressing loneliness and uncertainty in a remarkably direct, unsentimental manner.
These experiences, as well as the sudden death of her husband, led her to engagement with the Bible and the great religious thinkers of the 20th century.
Kamienska came of age during the horrors of the Nazi occupation of Poland and lived under Communism
