Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

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

Monday, October 31, 2016

All Souls Day

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When I was a child growing up in Chicago, All Souls Day wasn't a big deal. But in Poland it was.  At least that's what my parents sa...
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Friday, October 28, 2016

My Mother's Dreams in Wartime

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My Mother's Dreams in Wartime The world burns before our eyes, and the smell of everything red is on our skin. We wait i...
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Friday, October 14, 2016

Audible Version of Echoes of Tattered Tongues

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My book Echoes of Tattered Tongues, a memoir about my parents and their lives as Polish slave laborers in Germany and as refugees, has re...
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Thursday, October 13, 2016

Me and Thoreau and My Dad

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Thoreau is an author I love.  When my daughter was a kid, I would reel out these Thoreau quotes on every occasion whether we w...
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Thursday, October 6, 2016

UK CELEBRATES NATIONAL POETRY DAY!

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UK CELEBRATES NATIONAL POETRY DAY! Today is National Poetry Day in the UK and I figure I ought to help my brother and sister poets...
Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Dreams and Poems

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DREAMS AND POEMS Scream Online: A super Journal of Art and Culture has just released a free online anthology of poems about drea...
Wednesday, September 28, 2016

LA BOOK TOUR -- OCT 7-9, 2016

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LA BOOK TOUR, Oct. 7-9 I'll be doing 6 book events in the LA area to talk about Echoes of Tattered Tongues, m...
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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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