Leo Yankevich
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A critic, editor, poet and translator associated with The New Formalist movement, Leo Yankevich was born into a family of Roman Catholic Irish-Polish immigrants on October 30, 1961. He grew up and attended high school in Farrell, PA, a small steel town in the Rust Belt of middle America. He then studied History and Polish Literature at Alliance College, Cambridge Springs, PA, receiving a BA in 1984. Later that year he travelled to Poland to begin graduate study at the centuries-old Jagiellonian University in Krakow. A staunch anti-communist, he played an active role in the dissident movement in that country, and was arrested and beaten badly on a few occasions by the communist security forces. After the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, he decided to settle permanently in Poland. Since that time he has lived in Gliwice (Gleiwitz), an industrial city in Upper Silesia.
[edit] Books by Leo Yankevich
- The Language of Birds; Pygmy Forest Press, 1994
- Grief's Herbs (translations after the Polish of Stanisław Grochowiak); The Mandrake Press, 1995
- The Gnosis of Gnomes; The Mandrake Press, 1995
- Epistle from The Dark; The Mandrake Press, 1996
- The Golem of Gleiwitz; The Mandrake Press, 1998
- '"The Unfinished Crusade"; The Mandrake Press, 2000
- "The Last Silesian"; The Mandrake Press, 2005
