Echoes of Tattered Tongues
News, Reviews & Events — 2015-2016
This page contains News, Reviews & Events from 2015 through 2016 dealing with Echoes of Tattered Tongues, either in whole or in part. Complete listings can be found in What’s Happening section of the home page and/or in the News, Reviews & Events Archive under Media Room in the main menu. Earlier years for this title can be found under the News, Reviews & Events tab in the menu at the left of this page.
Author John GuzlowskiDecember 2016 – War Literature & the Arts interviews John Guzlowski – The December 2016 issue of War, Literature and the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities selected author John Guzlowski’s new book Echoes of Tattered Tongues as its “Editor’s Choice” for the year 2016. In a sensitive, thoughtful and wide-ranging interview with Guzlowski, writer Sean Purio explores Guzlowski’s writing and what lies beneath it, saying about Echoes: “If honesty has a color, then Guzlowski writes in it.” Read the entire interview…
December 2–4, 2016 – Washington, D.C. – Polish Perspectives at 2016 NCSS – Volunteers from the American Council for Polish Culture organized and manned a Polish Perspectives booth at the 2016 Annual Conference of the National Council for the Social Studies. With several thousand teachers in attendance, and more than 200 booths, this large bustling conference was a great venue to present Polish perspectives on history and culture. As we have done in the past, Aquila Polonica was happy to donate copies of its titles, including Echoes of Tattered Tongues, and accompanying material, which was given away to teachers during the conference.
November 17–20, 2016 – Washington, D.C. – 2016 ASEEES Convention – Exciting to be in the nation’s capital once again for the annual convention of the Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies, where we exhibited all our titles. Aquila Polonica president Terry Tegnazian and Creative Director Ewa Wojciak attended and manned the booth. And since we were in Washington, D.C., the newly appointed ambassador Piotr Wilczek invited attendees interested in Polish affairs to the Ambassador’s residence for a special reception.
September 17, 2016 – Verse Daily’s Poem of the Day – We’re excited that prestigious poetry media outlet Verse Daily has chosen the poem “Today the Gypsies Are Burning” from John Guzlowski’s new book, Echoes of Tattered Tongues as its Poem of the Day! Read the Poem of the Day online, OR in pdf…
September 8, 2016 – Harvard Review book review of Echoes of Tattered Tongues – The Harvard Review Online gives a great review of Echoes of Tattered Tongues by John Guzlowski, calling it “a capstone project...commendable for its psychological accuracy.” The review, by Okla Elliott, concludes: “Echoes of Tattered Tongues is a formally coherent, challenging, and important book, chronicling the lasting scars of one family with deftness and narrative depth. Guzlowski is often bluntly direct, occasionally lyrically oblique, but both to great effect.” Read the review online OR pdf…
June 26, 2016 – Echoes Audiobook Released– The audiobook for Echoes of Tattered Tongues has just been released by Audible.com. Beautifully narrated by actor Jon Brandi! You can listen to several samples here. And click here to get the audiobook from Audible!
May 11–14, 2016 – BookExpo America & BookCon, Chicago, IL – This year BookExpo America is in Chicago, at McCormick Place Convention Center, and Poland is the featured country! Aquila Polonica will be sharing booth space with the official exhibit by the Polish Book Institute, Booth 1504/1505—showcasing Aquila Polonica titles and bringing three authors (including Echoes of Tattered Tongues author John Guzlowski) who will be doing events at BEA and BookCon, and in the Chicago area, all week. For more details and the event schedule…
April 26, 2016 – Washington, D.C. – John Guzlowski at the European Union Delegation – In a well-attended event co-sponsored by the Polish Embassy and the European Union Delegation, both in Washington, D.C., author John Guzlowski spoke about his new book Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded and the life experiences upon which this work was based, and read some passages from the book. The event was moderated by author Leslie Pietrzyk (Pears on a Willow Tree; A Year and a Day; This Angel on My Chest). Some photos from the event:
April 13, 2016 – World Literature Today reviews Echoes of Tattered Tongues – “Taut…beautifully realized,” says World Literature Today in its sensitive and thoughtful review of Echoes of Tattered Tongues. Read the entire review online OR pdf…
April 4, 2016 – Publishers Weekly reviews Echoes of Tattered Tongues – “Gut-wrenching narrative lyric poems,” is how Publishers Weekly describes author John Guzlowski’s work in Echoes of Tattered Tongues, concluding “Poems of this nature are not meant to alleviate the pain, but to help keep a record of it; to serve as a reminder that silence is not a crime, but forgetting is.” Read the entire review online OR pdf…
April 2016 – Virginia Living Magazine reviews Echoes of Tattered Tongues – “This is an astonishing collection,” says the Books section of the April 2016 issue of Virginia Living Magazine! Read the review…
April 2016 – Polish American Journal reviews Echoes of Tattered Tongues – “With unapologetic rawness, John Guzlowski gives us his family’s memoirs in a mix of poetry and prose in Echoes of Tattered Tongues. In Echoes we are shown the stark experiences of his family in three different time periods: his parents’ retirement, after the war, and during World War II.” Read the entire review…
March 15, 2016 – Lynchburg, VA – Holocaust Education Foundation of Central Virginia – John Guzlowski, author of Echoes of Tattered Tongues, presented a program titled “The Unknown Face of the Holocaust” at Lynchburg College, sponsored by the Holocaust Education Foundation of Central Virginia. The audience of nearly 200 people engaged in a lively Q&A with the author after his presentation, which included readings from his new book, then stayed to purchase books at the event from Givens Books & Little Dickens, which the author signed, and enjoy the complimentary reception afterwards.
February 29, 2016 – Foreword Reviews review of Echoes of Tattered Tongues – Foreword Reviews, one of the major publishing industry media, just gave Echoes of Tattered Tongues a 5-heart review, calling it a “devastating, one-of-a-kind collection.” Echoes was one of only six books reviewed in the Poetry Spotlight feature of Foreword Reviews’ Spring 2016 issue. Read the review online OR pdf…
February 27, 2016 – “Echoes of Tattered Tongues” Book Trailer Becomes a Viral Video! – We just learned that the book trailer for our new book “Echoes of Tattered Tongues” has become a “Viral Video”! Please help us push it higher in the rankings by sharing on your social media sites, e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc. You can watch the trailer above or at this link. Click here for the Viral Videos listing.
February 15, 2016 – Review of Echoes of Tattered Tongues by Danusha Goska – Beautifully written review by Danusha Goska, in her Save Send Delete blog, of Echoes of Tattered Tongues. Among other things, she says: “Guzlowski’s book is essential for anyone wanting fully to understand ethnicity in America… Through authentic and meticulously observed and recorded details, Guzlowski reaches the universal. All readers, of any ethnicity or life experience, will find something to identify with in these pages…This is an excellent, important, and highly recommended book.” Read the review...
January 31, 2016 – Cosmopolitan Review reviews Echoes of Tattered Tongues – Wonderful review of our upcoming March release Echoes of Tattered Tongues by John Guzlowski, in the Winter 2016 issue of Cosmopolitan Review, written by Maja Trochimczyk! Detailed, thoughtful, erudite, the review begins: “Some books take a lifetime to write, yet they can be read in one sleepless night, filled with tears of compassion and a heaviness of heart.” Calling the book “unforgettable,” Ms. Trochimczyk concludes: “Intensely personal, the book is, at the same time, universal…impeccable use of language…The book is an historical and literary revelation…intense, starkly realistic…It should be considered on a par with the work by giants of Holocaust literature—memoirs by Primo Levi, or stories by Tadeusz Borowski.” Read the entire review online OR pdf…
January 7, 2016 – Shelf Awareness “Book Trailer of the Day” – Wow! Shelf Awareness chose our book trailer for Echoes of Tattered Tongues as its Book Trailer of the Day, calling the book “a searing memoir!
December 27, 2015 – Bibliotekos Advance Review of Echoes of Tattered Tongues – Bibliotekos has posted an awesome review of our upcoming March 2016 release Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded by John Guzlowski, based on the Advance Review Copy of the book. Reviewer Gregory Tague, Professor of English at St. Francis College and Editor of Battle Runes: Writings on War and Common Boundary: Stories of Immigration, says among other things: “These are poems whose images and metaphors have undergone the finest grinding, becoming crystal lenses to magnify the inner and outer lives of his parents. The clear poetic/narrative voice is remarkably strong yet elegant—this is not a random collection but the story of a family across generations dealing with the consequences of world war.” Calling the book “a magnificent elegy to civilian lives lost or shattered in war and thereafter,” Professor Tague concludes: “Guzlowski has successfully undertaken a monumental, moral obligation.” In an accompanying email, Professor Tague said “I could not praise it enough—masterfully done. Really reads almost like a novel.” Read the entire review as pdf OR online…
November 19–22, 2015 – Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, Philadelphia – Aquila Polonica exhibited at the 2015 ASEEES annual convention in Philadelphia—marking our sixth year at ASEEES! John Guzlowski, author of Aquila Polonica’s March 2016 release, Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded, attended the convention, and a stack of Advance Review Copies of the book was given away gratis to interested attendees. For photos and a more complete report…
