Little Schoolboys

Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz, reviewing the Polish translation of Language of Mules, for the journal Tygodnik Powszechny, said, “This volume astonished me.” A Professor Emeritus at Eastern Illinois University, John Guzlowski currently lives in Danville, Virginia, where he recently completed a novel about the German soldiers who murdered his mother’s family during the Second World War. A number of these poems appear in his books Language of Mules, Lightning and Ashes (Steel Toe Books), and Third Winter of War: Buchenwald (Finishing Line Press). His poetry, fiction, and essays try to remember them and their voices. His poems also remember his parents, who survived their slave labor experiences in Nazi Germany. Garrison Keillor read Guzlowski’s poem “What My Father Believed”

The novel is set in the late psychedelic 1960s in Chicago. Two Chicago detectives are called in by a nun to deal with a pedophile priest who is apparently sexually abusing altar boys. Shortly afterward, the nun is found dead in her convent. The two detectives are attempting to deal with both the pedophilia and the murder, but the lead detective is distracted by the disappearance of his daughter who may have been kidnapped by drug dealers.

A number of these poems appear in his books Language of Mules, Lightning and Ashes (Steel Toe Books), and Third Winter of War: Buchenwald (Finishing Line Press). Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz, reviewing the Polish translation of Language of Mules, for the journal Tygodnik Powszechny, said, “This volume astonished me.” A Professor Emeritus at Eastern Illinois University, John Guzlowski current

down and dirty sequel to Suitcase Charlie Peg R Little Schoolboys is the fast-paced, down and dirty sequel to Suitcase Charlie. The time is ten years later, after the child murders in Suitcase Charlie. Chicago detectives Frank Purcell and Marvin Bondarowicz start out investigating a case of sexual assault on an altar boy by a priest. Then comes the murder of a beloved nun from the same pa