Leo Yankevich
Leo Yankevich was an American poet and the editor of The New Formalist.Early life and education
Leo Yankevich 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. Thereafter, he lived in Gliwice, an industrial city in Upper Silesia.Writing activities
Yankevich wrote poems in both traditional metre and in syllabics, and only occasionally in free verse. He was 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 to Poets Against War.Personal life
Yankevich was married and had three sons.Published works
Chapbooks
- The Language of Birds; Pygmy Forest Press, 1994
- Grief's Herbs ; 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
Books
- The Unfinished Crusade; The Mandrake Press, 2000
- The Last Silesian; The Mandrake Press, 2005
- Tikkun Olam; Counter-Currents Publishing, 2012
- Journey Late at Night: Poems & Translations; Counter-Currents Publishing, 2013
- The Hypocrisies of Heaven: Poems New & Old: ; Counter-Currents Publishing, 2016
Internet Archive's copies
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