Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

My Parents' Experiences as Polish Slave Laborers in Nazi Germany and Displaced Persons after the War

Monday, July 27, 2015

Day 3 Poem for the 5 Poems 5 Days Poem-thon

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Day 3 Poem for the 5 Poems - 5 Days Poem-thon I wrote this poem about 30 years ago.  We were living in Charleston, Illinoi...
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Thursday, July 9, 2015

5 Poems 5 Days -- Day 2

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I've been writing poems for about 37 years now.  I started when I was in grad school working on my Ph.D.  It was a hot, humid August...
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5 Poems in 5 Days

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5 Poems in 5 Days First Poem Dean Pasch   Patty Dickson Pieczka  and  Maja Trochimczyk  have each tagged me to do the 5 poems i...
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Thursday, June 4, 2015

D-Day

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June 6 is the anniversary of the Allied invasion of Europe.  It's a day that means a lot to me.   My parents were two of the 15 millio...

Another Satisfied Reader of Suitcase Charlie

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Author Sandra Kolankiewicz gasps at my novel Suitcase Charlie ! You can gasp along with her!   Suitcase Charlie ...
Wednesday, June 3, 2015

The Schuessler-Peterson Murders

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My novel  Suitcase Charlie  begins with a Prologue, a statement from an Associated Press wire report from October 18, 1955. The bod...
Thursday, May 28, 2015

Suitcase Charlie -- How I Came to Write the Novel

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Suitcase Charlie and Me I started writing my novel  Suitcase Charlie  about sixty years ago when I was 7 years old, just a kid. At th...
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John Guzlowski
I was born in a refugee camp in Germany after World War II, and came with my parents Jan and Tekla and my sister Donna to the United States as Displaced Persons in 1951. My Polish Catholic parents had been slave laborers in Nazi Germany. Growing up in the immigrant and DP neighborhoods around Humboldt Park in Chicago, I met Jewish hardware store clerks with Auschwitz tattoos on their wrists, Polish cavalry officers who still mourned for their dead horses, and women who walked from Siberia to Iran to escape the Russians. My poems try to remember them and their voices. These poems have appeared in my chapbook Language of Mules and in both editions of Charles Fishman’s anthology of American poets on the Holocaust, Blood to Remember. Since retiring from teaching American Literature in 2005, I've written two new books about my parents. My new poems about them appear in my books Echoes of Tattered Tongues (Aquila Polonica, 2017) and True Confessions (Darkhouse Books, 2019).
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