Leo Yankevich

Leo Yankevich ( born October 30, 1961) is an American poet and editor of the literary magazine The New Formalist.

Life

Yankevich came in a Catholic family of Irish- Polish descent and grew up in Farrell, Pennsylvania on, a small town in western Pennsylvania steelworker. He studied History and Polish Studies at Alliance College, Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania, where in 1984 he received the Bachelor. He received in the same year a scholarship from the Kosciuszko Foundation, and moved to Poland to continue his studies at the Jagiellonian University. After the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, he decided to settle permanently in Poland and has since been living in Gliwice ( Gleiwitz German ) Upper Silesia. Leo Yankevich is married and has three sons.

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Yankevich writes mainly form- conscious poetry and the occasional free verse. He is a prolific translator into English and transferred among many other poems by Mikhail Lermontov Jurjewitsch, Georg Trakl, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stanisław Grochowiak, Czeslaw Milosz, Alexander Alexandrovich Blok, Leopold Staff, Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev and Bolesław Lesmian. Many of his poems has Yankevich made ​​available on the internet.

Example

Verse: iambic fünfhebiger with cross rhyme, and a final pair rhyme ( available online at poemhunter )

Publications

  • The Language of Birds; Pygmy Forest Press, 1994 ISBN 0-9445503-9-8
  • 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 Gliwice; The Mandrake Press, 1998 ISBN 83-904541-6-5
  • " Metaphysics " by Leo Yankevich, 2002
  • The Unfinished Crusade; The Mandrake Press, 2000 ISBN 839045419X
  • The Last Silesian; The Mandrake Press, 2005 ISBN 0970821921
  • Tikkun Olam; Counter- Currents Publishing, 2012 ISBN 978-1-935965-38-1
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