Leo Yankevich

Leo Yankevich (born October 30, 1961 in Sharon , Pennsylvania , † December 11, 2018 in Poland ) was an American poet and editor of the literary magazine The New Formalist .

Life

Yankevich was born in 1961 to a Catholic family of Irish-Polish descent and grew up in Farrell, Pennsylvania , a small steelworking town in western Pennsylvania. He studied history and polonics at Alliance College in Cambridge Springs , Pennsylvania, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1984. In the same year he received 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 stay in Poland permanently and has since lived in Gliwice (German: Gleiwitz) in Upper Silesia . Leo Yankevich was married and had three sons.

poetry

Yankevich wrote mostly form-conscious poetry and occasionally free verse. He was a prolific translator into English and translated poems by Michail Jurjewitsch Lermontow , Georg Trakl , Rainer Maria Rilke , Stanisław Grochowiak , Czesław Miłosz , Alexander Alexandrowitsch Blok , Leopold Staff , Nikolai Stepanowitsch Gumiljow and Bolesław Leśmian , among many others . Yankevich made many of his poems available on the Internet.

example

Verse form : Iambic five levers with cross rhyme and a final pair rhyme (accessible online at poemhunter )

Praised Be

Praised be the ug ly and the beau ti ful ,
the slow de cay of leaves , the dew on grass ,
the this tles and the app les boun ti ful .
Praised be the fro zen bran ches in the pass ,
the rap ids rush ing down wards to the spring ,
the vio lets sprou ting in the mor ning light .
Praised be the feath er of the bro ken wing ,
the woun ded fawn that will not last the night
whose heav y clouds whether struct the moon and stars .
Praised be the hun gry lynx and its last prey ,
the gos hawk fly ing o ver wood land scars
be fore it dives in to a sea of gray .
Praised be the fierce light that for ev er burns ,
and life that strugg les, dies and then re turns .

Political ideology

Yankevich said he was a supporter of the controversial psychologist and publicist Kevin B. MacDonald . In his book Tikum Olam , one of two titles that he published with the racist American publisher Counter-Currents Publishing, he wrote about the "corrosive influence of Jewish power". In an interview he called leftists "subhuman" and the meaning of women was defined as follows: "They are there to carry children, to be slapped on the buttocks and to serve beer". In an interview with Counter-Currents publisher Greg Johnson in 2011, Yankevich said countries like Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Scandinavia were lost to "non-white hordes" in the near future and prophesied the emigration of whites to Eastern Europe, " to avoid the ghettos of London, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Oslo and Stockholm ".

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Leo Joe Yankevich findagrave.com, accessed March 28, 2019
2. ↑ See "Tales I have Been Hanged By", The Chimaera ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ poemhunter.com
4. ↑ counter-currents.com (English)
5. ↑ pennreview.com ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) 
6. ↑ counter-currents.com (English)

Web links

• Poems in The Pennsylvania Review