Echoes of Tattered Tongues

Author Bio - Long (403 words): Over a writing career that spans more than 40 years, John Guzlowski has amassed a significant body of published work in a wide range of genres: poetry, prose, literary criticism, reviews, fiction and nonfiction. His poems and stories have appeared in such national journals as North American Review, Ontario Review, Rattle, Chattahoochee Review, Atlanta Review, Nimrod, Crab Orchard Review, Marge, Poetry East, Vocabula Review. He was the featured poet in the 2007 edition of Spoon River Poetry Review. Garrison Keillor read Guzlowski's poem What My Father Believed" on his program The Writers Almanac. Critical essays by Guzlowski about contemporary American, Polish, and Jewish authors can be the found in such journals as Modern Fiction Studies, Polish Review, Shofar, Polish American Studies, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, and Studies in Jewish American Literature. His previously published books include Language of Mules (DP Press), Lightning and Ashes (Steel Toe Books), Third Winter of War: Buchenwald (Finishing Line Press), and Suitcase Charlie (White Stag/Ravenswood). Guzlowski's work has also been included in anthologies such as Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust (Time Being Books), Cherries with Chopin (Moonrise Press), Common Boundary: Stories of Immigration (Editions Bibliotekos), and Longman Academic Reading Series 5 Student Book (Pearson Education ESL). Winner of the Illinois Arts Council's $7,500 Award for Poetry, Guzlowski has also been short-listed for the Bakeless Award and Eric Hoffer Award, and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and four Pushcart Prizes. He has been honored by the Georgia State Commission on the Holocaust for his work. In reviewing Guzlowski's book Language of Mules, Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz wrote, Exceptional...even astonished me...reveals an enormous ability for grasping reality." Born in a refugee camp in Germany after World War II, Guzlowski came to America with his family as a Displaced Person in 1951. His parents had been Polish slave laborers in Nazi Germany during the war. Growing up in the tough immigrant neighborhoods around Humboldt Park in Chicago, he met hardware store clerks with Auschwitz tattoos on their wrists, Polish cavalry officers who still mourned for their dead horses, and women who had walked from Siberia to Iran to escape the Russians. In much of his work, Guzlowski remembers and honors the experiences and ultimate strength of these voiceless survivors. Guzlowski received his B.A. in English Literature from the University of Illinois, Chicago, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Purdue University. He is a Professor Emeritus of English Literature at Eastern Illinois University, and currently lives in Virginia. Bio of Charles Ades Fishman Charles Ades Fishman, who wrote the Foreword to this book,is an award-winning poet, editor and Emeritus Distinguished Service Professorof English & Humanities, State University of New York. While his extensiveoeuvre spans a broad spectrum of topics, he has particular interest in theHolocaust and the Jewish experience. Among his many credentials, Fishman hasserved as a poetry consultant to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum inWashington, D.C. for more than twenty years. Other Books by John Guzlowski: Suitcase Charlie Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: White Stag/Ravenswood (2015) Language: English ISBN-10: 1508975523 ISBN-13: 978-1508975526 Lightning and Ashes Paperback: 96 pages Publisher: Steel Toe Books (2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 0974326453 ISBN-13: 978-0974326450 The Third Winter of War: Buchenwald Paperback: 36 pages Publisher: Finishing Line Press (2007) ISBN-10: 1599241749 ISBN-13: 978-1599241746 Jezyk mulow i inne wiersze/Language of Mules and Other Poems Translated into Polish by Bohdan Zadura Paperback: 109 pages Publisher: Katowice: Biblioteka Slaska (2002) Language: Bilingual Polish/English ISBN 83-87849-38-3 Language of Mules Paperback: 32 pages Publisher: DP Press (1999) Language: English No ISBN