Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

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

Friday, April 30, 2021

Nickels and Dimes

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  NICKELS AND DIMES I was talking about work with my wife’s 96 year-old dad Tony a couple of days ago.  He grew up in the Great Depression w...
Tuesday, March 23, 2021

How the Pandemic has Changed My life

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Yesterday, as we were sitting at the dinner table, my wife Linda looked up from her plate of pasta and said to me, “You know we haven’t take...
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Thursday, March 4, 2021

Mad Monk Ikkyu Journeys to the Temple

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 My Mad monk Ikkyu book is available for preorder. After years of writing poems and memoir pieces about my parents and their experiences in ...
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Friday, January 1, 2021

Not a Christmas Letter

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Not a Christmas Letter Just about every year since my wife Linda and I got married back in 1975, I’ve written a Christmas Letter. In it I’d ...
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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...
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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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