Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

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

Saturday, December 26, 2020

Our First Christmases after the War

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 Our First Christmases after the We had Christmas in the refugee camps in Germany after the war.  I don’t remember them, of course.  I was j...
Thursday, November 12, 2020

My Life After the Pandemic

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 My Life after the Pandemic This morning, I was sitting around watching the news shows, and all the news about the pandemic was bad, really ...
Sunday, September 27, 2020

Election Year?

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 Election Year? I don’t know if you’ve heard, but this is an election year, a presidential election year. I post a lot on Facebook and Twitt...
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

August 14, 2020 — 134th Day in Quarantine

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August 14, 2020 — 134th Day in Quarantine  It’s been raining for about 80 days.  I look out my window and see the gray wetness on the street...
Monday, August 3, 2020

Great News!

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The New York Times reviewed my new mystery Little Altar Boy, the 2nd Hank and Marvin mystery, and they liked it! Here’s what reviewer M aril...
Thursday, July 30, 2020

The Neighborhood Division: Stories by Jeff Vande Zande

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The Neighborhood Division: Stories by Jeff Vande Zande is the best book of fiction I’ve read in a long long time.     I’ve been a serious re...
Monday, July 27, 2020

Life in the Pandemic

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My pandemic poem Life in the Pandemic appears in New Verse News, a great online journal of poems about the news. Life in the Pandemic ...
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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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