Beautiful well named baby, gorgeous mother, beaming grandmother, and grandfather who looks like baby! Congratulations to all the happy people in these pictures.
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).
7 comments:
great name for a great baby!
What a beautiful name! Congratulations to your whole family, and may she have a long, happy and peaceful life!
-Christine
A lovely name!
Bellisima!
Congratulations to the entire family, and welcome to the world, Luciana - gorgeous child!
Beautiful! Congratulations to all!
Beautiful well named baby, gorgeous mother, beaming grandmother, and grandfather who looks like baby! Congratulations to all the happy people in these pictures.
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