Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Popular Posts
-
My wife Linda showed me a letter that she was sending to her nephew Matt Calendrillo and his wife Katie, and I said, "Linda, this has t... -
Hi, I wanted to post something special for my birthday, but now that I'm going to be 59 I've starting to get lazier so I'm just ... -
A couple of days ago, my friend poet Christina Pacosz sent me an article entitled “ Rich Begin Feeling the Pain in Down Economy .” It was...
-
When Linda told me that the nurse said Uncle Charlie was terminally agitated, I thought she was joking. It reminded me of old washing machin...
-
I went to a politicians forum here organized by the young democrats and young republicans and listened to 16 politicians, dems and repubs, ...
-
The first writer I ever met was Paul Carroll. He was a poet, literary critic, and editor involved with and publishing the beats. He knew t...
-
The following is the preface I wrote to a gathering of poems about God written in the aftermath of September 11. The preface and the poems ...
WHO I AM
- 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).
Lillian and Luciana's Website
Subscribe To Everything's Jake
Posts
Comments
Facebook Badge
Blogs I Follow
-
-
2024: Best Books (I Read)1 week ago
-
-
-
The Arc of Justice5 years ago
-
-
-
-
Stuff I Wrote7 years ago
-
-
Three strikes...12 years ago
-
defensive writing14 years ago
-
Real Quick Local Note14 years ago
-
Toward a Definition of Poetry14 years ago
-
-
-
My Blogs
Life Jacket Drill on The Sovereign of the Seas
Fish in Deep Water
5 comments:
Yay!
hoorah!!
Looking forward to the next update.
Still find it hard to believe you had this problem. You don't seem like the type! Thirty years a vegetarian ... yoga ... ???
Makes me think of my Uncle Jan Cerno, who, while interrupted in his lunch of smoked pig fat and raw hot peppers, said, "Your great grandfather ate this for lunch everyday, and lived to be 92 years old!"
I think it was the slivovice.
Hi, Danusha, thanks for the note.
The process of coming back from open heart surgery is pretty much a roller coaster.
I was great yesterday--walked around the house 3 times for about 6 minutes each time, but then the night was terrible. Couldn't sleep, couldn't lie on my back, lots of pain. I ended up giving up around 3 am and going to my study to read Paul Theroux's Iron Rooster book, travels in China. I drank tea and read till about 7 when it was time for 10 pills. The pills almost knocked me out. I started sweating and couldn't stop it. Linda helped me to an easy chair and I lay there for an hour till I stopped sweating.
Yikes. About this recovery business.
Amazing how many ways the human body can malfunction and experience pain.
Prayers!
Post a Comment