Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

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

Friday, June 27, 2014

Ten Things I See from the Division Street Bus, 1967

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Ten Things I see from the Division Street Bus, 1967 1.       The young man in a white T-shirt and black slacks puts his right h...
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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Escape into Life

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Five of my poems were recently featured in the online journal  Escape into Life.  The poems are somewhat different from those I norm...
Monday, June 23, 2014

Aging Isn't Easy

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I just turned 66 and last night I got a birthday note from my sister.  She wanted to know about my health, so I told he...
Friday, June 6, 2014

Remembering D-Day: 70th Anniversary

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Today, 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 ...
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

A Polish Doctor in a Nazi Camp: A Review by Girija Sankar

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The following review of Barbara Rylko-Bauer's A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps: My Mother's Memories of Imprisonment, Immigration, ...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Interview with John Guzlowski: Spoon River Poetry Review

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In January 2006, I went up to Atlanta and met my friend Bruce Guernsey in a Ruby Tuesday Restaurant to do the following interview for  Spoon...
Friday, May 9, 2014

Mother's Day Poem

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Mother’s Day Poem I remember my mother, her old house, the miracle of her love...
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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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