Leo Yankevich
| Leo Yankevich | |
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| Born |
October 30, 1961 Sharon, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Occupation | Poet, editor, translator |
| Nationality | United States |
| Literary movement | New Formalism |
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Leo Yankevich (born October 30, 1961) is an American poet and the editor of The New Formalist.
He grew up and attended high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania, a small steel town in western Pennsylvania. He studied History and Polish Studies at Alliance College, Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania, receiving a BA in 1984. Later that year he traveled to Poland on a fellowship from the Kosciuszko Foundation to attend Kraków's Jagiellonian University.
After the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, he decided to settle permanently in Poland. Since then he has lived in Gliwice, an industrial city in Upper Silesia.[1]
Personal life
Yankevich is married and has three sons.
Writing activities
Yankevich writes poems in both traditional metre and in syllabics, and only occasionally in free verse. He is a prolific translator, having rendered into English poems by Mikhail Lermontov, Georg Trakl, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stanisław Grochowiak, Czesław Miłosz, Alexander Blok, Leopold Staff, Nikolay Gumilev, Bolesław Leśmian, and many others. He has a large Internet presence with work published in scores of online publications, ranging from The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette[2] to Poets Against War.[3]
Quotes
Nothing remains after philosophy but physical reality, be it dew on a lovely girl's maidenhood, or twisted wreckage after a tank battle.'[4]
Published works
Chapbooks
- The Language of Birds; Pygmy Forest Press, 1994 ISBN 0-944550-39-8
- 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 ISBN 83-904541-1-4
- The Golem of Gleiwitz; The Mandrake Press, 1998 ISBN 83-904541-6-5
- "Metaphysics" by Leo Yankevich, 2002
Books
- The Unfinished Crusade; The Mandrake Press, 2000 ISBN 83-904541-9-X
- The Last Silesian; The Mandrake Press, 2005 ISBN 0-9708219-2-1
- Tikkun Olam; Counter-Currents Publishing, 2012 ISBN 978-1-935965-38-1
- Journey Late at Night: Poems & Translations; Counter-Currents Publishing, 2013 ISBN 978-1935965824
- The Hypocrisies of Heaven: Poems New & Old: ; Counter-Currents Publishing, 2016 ISBN 978-1940933764
References
- ↑ Profile, the-chimaera.com; accessed October 21, 2014.
- ↑ Onion Snow, post-gazette.com; accessed October 21, 2014.
- ↑ Poets Against The War Poem of the Month, poetsagainstthewar.org; accessed October 21, 2014.
- ↑ quoted in An Interview with Leo Yankevich, Formalist Poetry News, October 2007
Further reading
- Poem at The Flea
- Poems at The Formalist Portal
- Poems at The Pennsylvania Review
- Poem at The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Poems at The Monongahela Review
- Poems at The Innisfree Poetry Journal
- Poem at The East River Review
- Poems at Hypertexts
- Poems at Poemhunter.com
- Poem at The Barefoot Muse
- Poems at Poetry Porch
- Poems at DMQ Review
- Poem at Snakeskin
- Poem at Beauty for Ashes
- Poems at Counter-Currents Publishing
- Interview at Counter Currents