Maja Trochimczyk

Broschiertes Buch

The Rainy Bread

More Poems from Exile

Beschreibung

The Rainy Bread: More Poems from Exile presents 63 poems about forgotten stories of Poles living under the Soviet and German occupation during WWII, especially in the Eastern Borderlands or "Kresy." They were killed, deported, imprisoned, or starved after the invasion of Poland by the Soviet Union on September 17, 1939. Some of these brief portraits capture the trauma, resilience, ordeals, and miraculous survival stories of the author's immediate family. Their experiences of displacement, hunger, cold, and poverty during the war are typical of Polish civilians. These fictionalized memories are coupled with depictions of survival of other Poles deported to Siberia, the Arctic Circle, or Kazakhstan; those left the Soviet Union with the Second Corps of the Polish Army under the command of General W¿adys¿aw Anders; those who were transported to refugee camps in India or Africa; and ended up in Argentina, Canada, Australia or the U.S. The book is an expanded edition of The Rainy Bread: Poems from Exile (2016) and a companion to Slicing the Bread (2014). Organized into six parts - Destinations, Nowhere, Hunger Years, Resilience, There and Back, What Remains - the updated book follows a trajectory of descent into hell of deportations, imprisonment, hunger, mass murder, and the ascent into resilience and survival. At the end, the dark rain of sorrow changes into the diamond rain of delight, as life triumphs over death, love over fear. Maja Trochimczyk, Ph.D., is a Polish American poet, music historian, photographer, and author of seven books on music, most recently Górecki in Context: Essays on Music (2017) and Frédéric Chopin: A Research and Information Guide (co-edited with William Smialek, 2015). She currently serves as the President of the California State Poetry Society, managing editor of the California Quarterly, and the President of the Helena Modjeska Art and Culture Club in Los Angeles, promoting Polish culture in California. Trochimczyk's nine books of poetry include Rose Always, Miriam's Iris, Slicing the Bread, Into Light, and four anthologies, Chopin with Cherries (2010), Meditations on Divine Names (2012), Grateful Conversations: A Poetry Anthology (2018) and We Are Here: Village Poets Anthology (2020).

Autor

Dr. MAJA TROCHIMCZYK is a Polish-born California poet, music historian, and photographer. She published seven books on music and five collections of poetry (Rose Always, Miriam's Iris, Slicing the Bread, Into Light, & The Rainy Bread). She edited four poetry anthologies, Chopin with Cherries, Meditations on Divine Names, Grateful Conversations and We Are Here: Village Poets Anthology. She also wrote hundreds of book chapters, peer-reviewed articles on music history and poems published in English, Polish and many translations. The founder of Moonrise Press and a member of poetry groups Westside Women Writers and Village Poets, she serves as the President of the California State Poetry Society, and the President of Helena Modjeska Art and Culture Club. MARLENE HITT is a poet, writer and retired educator with local history as an avocation. She served for many years as Archivist, Museum Director and Historian at the Bolton Hall Museum in Tujunga. She is a native Californian and a graduate of Occidental College. As a member of the Chupa Rosa Writers of Sunland for nearly 30 years, she has worked with this small group of poets from whom has sprung readings at the local library, the Poet Laureate Program of Sunland-Tujunga, and the Village Poets. Ms. Hitt served a Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga in 1999-2001. She has published a book on local history, Sunland-Tujunga From Village to City (Arcadia, 2000, 2005) based on columns written for Glendale News Press and other local papers since 1998. Her poems appeared in Psychopoetica (UK), Chupa Rosa Diaries (2001-2003), Glendale College's Eclipse anthologies, Chopin With Cherries (2010), Meditations on Divine Names (2012), Sometimes in the Open, a collection of verse by California Poets Laureate, and The Coiled Serpent (2016). She published chapbooks Sad with Cinnamon, Mint Leaves, and Bent Grass (all in 2001), as well as Riddle in the Rain with Dorothy Skiles, a stack of poetry booklets for friends and family, and most recently a critically acclaimed poetry volume, Clocks and Water Drops (Moonrise Press, 2015).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Moonrise Press
• Seitenzahl: 124
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 279g
• ISBN-13: 9781945938474
• ISBN-10: 1945938471
• Artikelnr.: 63583635