Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

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

Saturday, June 15, 2024

My Books

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I saw an article this morning about the ten things that guys like to collect.  It was an interesting list because – for the most part – it ...
Friday, May 31, 2024

MURDERTOWN

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Last week, I received some great news.  My third Hank and Marvin mystery novel was finally published and became available in bookstores and ...
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

FIRST AMAZON REVIEW OF MURDERTOWN

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First Amazon Review of Murdertown -- the 3rd Hank and Marvin mystery  Review of my novel is by David Rabin, award winning mystery novelists ...
Friday, May 3, 2024

May 3, Polish Constitution Day

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 May 3, Polish Constitution Day May 3rd was always a big holiday for us when I was growing up in the Polish Triangle in Chicago in the 1950s...
Sunday, March 10, 2024

Who Would Jesus Vote For?

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WHO WOULD JESUS VOTE FOR?  I don’t know if you remember this, but one of the big questions during Donald Trump’s last run for president in ...
Sunday, December 31, 2023

Happy New Year

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 Happy New Year My parents loved New Year’s Eve. They loved dressing up in their fancy clothes. For weeks, my mom would search the departmen...
Saturday, December 30, 2023

Robert Creeley and Me

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 Robert Creeley I saw him read once.  In Chicago, in 1968 or 1969.  At a small private college.  North Park College maybe.   He was brillian...
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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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