An interview with John Guzlowski by Tete, Editor of The Unconventional Courier , published earlier in The Unconventional Courier. Republication arranged by Amit Kamila.

ABOUT ITERVIEWEE

In Issue 10, The Unconventional Courier(TUC) interviewed Polish-American author John Guzlowski. He previously submitted a reflection on postmodernism to Issue 7 of The Unconventional Courier, which is re-published here with formal permission from John Guzlowski and TUC.
John Guzlowski’s writings appear in Rattle, Ontario Review, North American Review, and other journals in USA and abroad. His poems and personal essays about his parents’ experiences as slave laborers in Nazi Germany appear in his award-winning memoir Echoes of Tattered Tongues. He is also the author of the Hank and Marvin mystery novels (reviewed in the New York Times and elsewhere) and a columnist for the Dziennik Zwiazkowy, the oldest Polish newspaper in America.
His most recent books of poems are Small Talk, Mad Monk Ikkyu and True Confessions.
He has also recently published a novel about two German lovers separated by war entitled Retreat: A Love Story.
In reviewing Guzlowski’s first book of poems, Language of Mules, Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz wrote, “Exceptional…even astonished me…reveals an enormous ability for grasping reality.”
To get to know him more, we’ve decided to ask him several questions.
The Unconventional Courier(TUC): You wrote about your family's experiences in a Nazi labor camp and the harsh experiences that made others immigrate. What is your approach to writing such heavy topics?

 

ABOUT THE INTERVIEWER
Teté DePunk, "Teté  is currently the e Editor-in-Chief of The Unconventional Courier"  is an unconventional writer, artist and podcaster, whose passions run gamut from comics to literature, to Electro-swing music to Pol-Sci to chess to tarot-deck collecting.
Currently, Tete is working on "Fragments of Identity", a novel set in a reimagined 1920's America, as well as nonfiction works, including the essays, "The 40-day Eulogy."
Teté is the creator and host of her own podcast, "The Real Stuff," available on Spotify and Spotify for Podcasters.

 

Re-publication courtesy: The formal permission to re-publish the interview was arranged by Amit K. Kamila, poet & writer.