The Rainy Bread: Poems from Exile

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The Rainy Bread: Poems from Exile is written by Maja Trochimczyk and published by Lulu.com. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1945938005 (ISBN 10) and 9781945938009 (ISBN 13).

OThe Rainy Bread: Poems of ExileO includes 30 poems about forgotten stories of Poles living in the Eastern Borderlands of Kresy, who were killed, deported, imprisoned, or oppressed after the invasion of Poland by the Soviet Union on September 17, 1939. Some of these brief portraits capture the trauma and resilience, ordeals and miraculous survival stories of the authorOs immediate family. Their experiences of displacement, hunger, cold, and poverty during the war are typical of Polish civilians. These fictionalized memories are coupled with depictions of survival of other Poles deported to Siberia, the Arctic Circle, or Kazakhstan; who left the Soviet Union with the Second Corps of the Polish Army under the command of General W_adys_aw Anders; were transported to refugee camps in India or Africa; and ended up in Argentina, Canada, Australia or the U.S. The book is a companion to OSlicing the BreadO (2014), with which it shares some poems, including vignettes from the authorOs childhood in Warsaw.