Author Archives: Leo Yankevich

Leo Yankevich

Born in Sharon, Pennsylvania in 1961 to Roman Catholic parents of Polish-Lithuanian and Irish descent, Leo Yankevich is a widely published formalist poet as well as translator.

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“Rumour Mill” & “Wife”

Leo Yankevich

176 words

Rumour Mill

Rumours may have reached you of
my imminent demise.
They’re largely true, the eyes
of Don Quixote’s every love

look down and almost see my flask
of wine, beer, whisky, rum,
fuel that helped me come
this far, where bells now lift my mask. Read more …

Published: February 23, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Leo Yankevich, North American New Right, originals, poems | 3 Responses

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Somewhere over Germany, 1945

Leo Yankevich

30 words

At the gates of heaven
he did not know the names
beyond the bombing bay.

But many miles away
he could still see the flames
judging the dead in Dresden.

Published: February 13, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Allied atrocities, book excerpts, Dresden, Leo Yankevich, North American New Right, poems, World War II | 1 Response

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Some nights are never-ending hells
for these old veterans in our care.
We do not hand out pills, but shells,
as out of battlefields they stare
from over sixty years ago
on far-off Guam or Guadalcanal.
With trembling hands they try to show
how the bravest or youngest fell.
Read more …

Published: November 11, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book excerpts, Leo Yankevich, North American New Right, poems, war | Comments closed

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On the Passing of Leonard Cohen

Leo Yankevich

Leonard Cohen

338 words

My first encounter with a Leonard Cohen song was in October of 1982. I had invited a Polish exchange student to a party in my fraternity house room. He came with an acoustic guitar and played and sang Cohen’s “Suzanne,” a song from the 1967 album Songs of Leonard Cohen. It was my third year at Alliance College. I was struck by the sublime beauty of the song. Read more …

Published: November 11, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, commemorations, Leo Yankevich, Leonard Cohen, North American New Right, originals, poetry, popular music | Comments closed

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New from Counter-Currents!
The Hypocrisies of Heaven: Poems New & Old

Leo Yankevich

508 words

Leo Yankevich
The Hypocrisies of Heaven: Poems New & Old
San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2016
148 pages

Hardcover: $25

Paperback: $15

Published: September 16, 2016 | Posted in news item | Tagged Counter-Currents title, poems, Yankevich book | Comments closed

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On Christianity

Leo Yankevich

770 words

Did Jesus Christ die on the cross at Golgotha to atone the sins of humanity, offering redemption to all who believed in him? Or was he a heretic Jew who attempted to reform Judaism so as to strengthen the Jewish in-group, which obviously was weak due to infighting and bitter acrimony among traders on the market squares of the Levant?

Published: July 13, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Christianity, essays, Leo Yankevich, Marxism, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

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Sex in the City

Leo Yankevich

110 words

She finds herself all by herself in bed,
a web of sunshine on the downy sheet,
a wedding day of bells inside her head,
a layer of cream upon her skin, her feet
still sore from twenty years of love and toil,
yet she thinks that life’s been pretty good.
She hears the bacon sizzle, coffee boil
inside the dented pot of spinsterhood.
She has survived the cold and loneliness
of her decisions, and of her mistakes, Read more …

Published: June 8, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book excerpts, feminism, Leo Yankevich, North American New Right, poems | Comments closed

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Queue, 1944

Leo Yankevich

136 words

Its weathercock covered with fresh snow,
the barn is dreamy on the hill.
Out of the woods, and lying low,
crawl green men, in . . . in for the kill.

Published: April 29, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Allied atrocities, Leo Yankevich, North American New Right, poems, rape, reprints | Comments closed

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Counter-Attack

Leo Yankevich

167 words

On 27 January 1945 the Red Army had just been defeated in an armor engagement with the 20th Panzer Division, which was retreating to escape encirclement, slightly south of Gleiwitz in Upper Silesia. Two villages were punished for the defeat: Preiswitz, populated by Poles, and neighboring Schönwald, populated by Germans. In total, 200 innocent civilians were murdered in cold blood. Read more …

Published: April 22, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Allied atrocities, Leo Yankevich, North American New Right, originals, poems, World War II | Comments closed

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Maverick Among Placid Cows:
The Poetry of Joseph S. Salemi

Leo Yankevich

Peter Paul Rubens, Two Satyrs, 1618-1619

1,430 words

Joseph S. Salemi was born in New York City in 1948 and grew up in Woodside, Queens. His grandfather, Rosario Previti, was a renowned Sicilian journalist, poet, and translator who rendered Edward FitzGerald’s version of the Rubaiyat into Italian, and who served as the American correspondent for the newspaper Don Giovanni in Messina, for which he wrote a popular series of satiric columns on the lifestyles and habits of Americans.