Winner 2017 Benjamin Franklin GOLD AWARD for POETRY. Winner 2017 MONTAIGNE MEDAL for most thought-provoking books. Major tour de force traces arc of one of millions of American immigrant families, survivors of WWII. Raw, eloquent, nuanced, intimate--illuminates the many faces of war, toll taken on innocent civilians, how trauma echoes down through generations. Narrative structure mirrors fractured dislocation experienced by war refugees, with haunting collage of jagged fragments--poems, prose and prose poems, frozen moments of time, sometimes dreamlike and surreal, other times realistic and graphic.…mehr
Winner 2017 Benjamin Franklin GOLD AWARD for POETRY. Winner 2017 MONTAIGNE MEDAL for most thought-provoking books. Major tour de force traces arc of one of millions of American immigrant families, survivors of WWII. Raw, eloquent, nuanced, intimate--illuminates the many faces of war, toll taken on innocent civilians, how trauma echoes down through generations. Narrative structure mirrors fractured dislocation experienced by war refugees, with haunting collage of jagged fragments--poems, prose and prose poems, frozen moments of time, sometimes dreamlike and surreal, other times realistic and graphic.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
By John Z. Guzlowski - Foreword by Charles Adès Fishman
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FOREWORD by Charles Adès Fishman xv PREFACE Where I'm Coming From xvii My People xx BOOK I. HALF A CENTURY LATER Dreams of Unhurried Memories 2 The Wooden Trunk 3 *** My Parents Retire to Arizona 9 A Good Life 10 Windows Without Scars 11 What My Father Believed 12 My Mother's Hair 14 My Father's Mother Asks Him to Forget the War 15 My Mother Talks About the War 16 I. My Mother Reads My Poem "Cattle Train to Magdeburg" 16 II. How Her Mother and Sister Died 17 III. The Beets 18 IV. Liberation 20 V. What the War Taught Her 22 Why My Mother Stayed with My Father 23 A Garden in the Desert 24 My Mother's Optimism 25 At the End: My Father 26 I. My Father Dying 26 II. Pigeons 27 III. A Sonnet About Dying 28 At the End: My Mother 29 I. My Mother Prays for Death 29 II. How Can I Ask My Mother 30 III. Dying in a Blue Room in Arizona 31 Souls Migrating in the Rain 32 BOOK II. REFUGEES Refugees 36 The Happy Times and Places 37 First Snow 39 *** Mother Tells Me How She Met My Father 41 The Day I Was Born in the Refugee Camp 42 Lessons 44 My Father's First Day in America 46 Promised Land 47 I. Coming to America, 1951 47 II. The Farms of Buffalo, New York 48 III. Winter in America 49 Looking for Work in America 50 I. What My Father Brought With Him 50 II. I Dream of My Father as He Was When He First Came Here Looking for Work 51 III. His First Job in America 52 Polish Triangle, Chicago 53 All the Clichés about Poverty are True 54 Friends in America: A Sonnet about Charity 55 A Letter to My Mother from Poland, October 4, 1952 56 My Mother's Sister After the War 57 Later in the Promised Land 61 Me in America, 1952 62 Stories My Sister Danusia Told Me 64 I. Poor Adä 64 II. Sweet Little Birds 65 III. The Storm 65 Friends in America: Polack Joe's Story 66 The Stories My Grandmother Told My Mother 68 Family Life After the War 70 Fussy Eaters 71 Whistling 72 A Young Soldier from Cze stochowa 73 Here's What My Mother Won't Talk About 74 Chores 75 Friends in America: The Polish Captain of Lancers 76 Danusia 78 Friends in America: Murdertown 80 The Evil that Men Do 84 My Father's Prayer 86 Two Worlds of Language 88 I. Missing Pieces 88 II. Dumb Polacks 89 III. Kitchen Polish 90 IV. My Grandparents 91 The Old Country 94 BOOK III. THE WAR Landscape with Dead Horses, 1939 96 September 1, 1939: The Day World War II Began 97 Fear (A Poem Based on a Story by Tadeusz Borowski) 99 *** My Mother Before the War 101 My Father Before the War 102 There Were No Miracles 104 The German Soldiers 105 I. German Soldiers Moving East 105 II. German Soldiers Come to a Polish Village 106 III. German Soldiers Stealing from the Dead 107 IV. What the German Soldiers Left Behind 108 My Mother Was 19 110 Cattle Train to Magdeburg 112 My Father Talks about the Boxcars 113 Grief 114 A Cross of Polish Wood 115 My Mother's First Winter in Germany 116 Sisters in the Labor Camps 117 Hunger in the Labor Camps 118 I. What My Father Ate 118 II. What a Starving Man Has 119 III. Among Sleeping Strangers 120 IV. The Germans Who Owned Them 122 A Story My Mother Heard in the Slave Labor Camp 123 The Work My Father Did in Germany 124 A Life Story 125 My Father Tells a Story 126 Brief History of a Mother's Sorrow 127 My Father's Teeth 128 The Forests of Katy 129 Third Winter of War: Buchenwald 130 My Mother's Dreams in Wartime 142 What My Father Knows About Killing 143 Today the Gypsies Are Burning 144 Temptation in the Desert 145 Photos of Dead Mothers 146 The Bombing of Magdeburg 147 Pietà in a Bombed Church, Magdeburg 148 His Dead Eye 150 Worthless 151 War and Peace 152 In the Spring the War Ended 153 EPILOGUE The Story Behind the Poems 155 In Heaven 159 APPENDIX "Red Poppies on Monte Cassino" 161 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 163 AUTHOR BIO 165 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 167 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE
FOREWORD by Charles Adès Fishman xv PREFACE Where I'm Coming From xvii My People xx BOOK I. HALF A CENTURY LATER Dreams of Unhurried Memories 2 The Wooden Trunk 3 *** My Parents Retire to Arizona 9 A Good Life 10 Windows Without Scars 11 What My Father Believed 12 My Mother's Hair 14 My Father's Mother Asks Him to Forget the War 15 My Mother Talks About the War 16 I. My Mother Reads My Poem "Cattle Train to Magdeburg" 16 II. How Her Mother and Sister Died 17 III. The Beets 18 IV. Liberation 20 V. What the War Taught Her 22 Why My Mother Stayed with My Father 23 A Garden in the Desert 24 My Mother's Optimism 25 At the End: My Father 26 I. My Father Dying 26 II. Pigeons 27 III. A Sonnet About Dying 28 At the End: My Mother 29 I. My Mother Prays for Death 29 II. How Can I Ask My Mother 30 III. Dying in a Blue Room in Arizona 31 Souls Migrating in the Rain 32 BOOK II. REFUGEES Refugees 36 The Happy Times and Places 37 First Snow 39 *** Mother Tells Me How She Met My Father 41 The Day I Was Born in the Refugee Camp 42 Lessons 44 My Father's First Day in America 46 Promised Land 47 I. Coming to America, 1951 47 II. The Farms of Buffalo, New York 48 III. Winter in America 49 Looking for Work in America 50 I. What My Father Brought With Him 50 II. I Dream of My Father as He Was When He First Came Here Looking for Work 51 III. His First Job in America 52 Polish Triangle, Chicago 53 All the Clichés about Poverty are True 54 Friends in America: A Sonnet about Charity 55 A Letter to My Mother from Poland, October 4, 1952 56 My Mother's Sister After the War 57 Later in the Promised Land 61 Me in America, 1952 62 Stories My Sister Danusia Told Me 64 I. Poor Adä 64 II. Sweet Little Birds 65 III. The Storm 65 Friends in America: Polack Joe's Story 66 The Stories My Grandmother Told My Mother 68 Family Life After the War 70 Fussy Eaters 71 Whistling 72 A Young Soldier from Cze stochowa 73 Here's What My Mother Won't Talk About 74 Chores 75 Friends in America: The Polish Captain of Lancers 76 Danusia 78 Friends in America: Murdertown 80 The Evil that Men Do 84 My Father's Prayer 86 Two Worlds of Language 88 I. Missing Pieces 88 II. Dumb Polacks 89 III. Kitchen Polish 90 IV. My Grandparents 91 The Old Country 94 BOOK III. THE WAR Landscape with Dead Horses, 1939 96 September 1, 1939: The Day World War II Began 97 Fear (A Poem Based on a Story by Tadeusz Borowski) 99 *** My Mother Before the War 101 My Father Before the War 102 There Were No Miracles 104 The German Soldiers 105 I. German Soldiers Moving East 105 II. German Soldiers Come to a Polish Village 106 III. German Soldiers Stealing from the Dead 107 IV. What the German Soldiers Left Behind 108 My Mother Was 19 110 Cattle Train to Magdeburg 112 My Father Talks about the Boxcars 113 Grief 114 A Cross of Polish Wood 115 My Mother's First Winter in Germany 116 Sisters in the Labor Camps 117 Hunger in the Labor Camps 118 I. What My Father Ate 118 II. What a Starving Man Has 119 III. Among Sleeping Strangers 120 IV. The Germans Who Owned Them 122 A Story My Mother Heard in the Slave Labor Camp 123 The Work My Father Did in Germany 124 A Life Story 125 My Father Tells a Story 126 Brief History of a Mother's Sorrow 127 My Father's Teeth 128 The Forests of Katy 129 Third Winter of War: Buchenwald 130 My Mother's Dreams in Wartime 142 What My Father Knows About Killing 143 Today the Gypsies Are Burning 144 Temptation in the Desert 145 Photos of Dead Mothers 146 The Bombing of Magdeburg 147 Pietà in a Bombed Church, Magdeburg 148 His Dead Eye 150 Worthless 151 War and Peace 152 In the Spring the War Ended 153 EPILOGUE The Story Behind the Poems 155 In Heaven 159 APPENDIX "Red Poppies on Monte Cassino" 161 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 163 AUTHOR BIO 165 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 167 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE
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