People keep asking me what's up with baby Luciana, and I keep wanting to post about her but getting bogged down in various other activities, like feeding her or trying to explain gravity to her.
But right now, while she's in the other room practicing how to eat peas, I think I will post a link to a site Lillian has set up full of pictures of this beautiful and smart baby.
This is so wonderful that you have a baby in your life who is practicing to eat peas! I am teaching a course in Arezzo, Italy, this summer and also have a blog about it on blogspot just to advertise it to students and direct them after they enroll.
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).
4 comments:
Hey John, is that your granddaughter? If so, congrats!
This is so wonderful that you have a baby in your life who is practicing to eat peas! I am teaching a course in Arezzo, Italy, this summer and also have a blog about it on blogspot just to advertise it to students and direct them after they enroll.
Happy holidays to all 4 of you!
sliczna dziewczyna!!!!!
David, thanks for the first comment in Polish!
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