Once Upon a World War II - Softcover

Campe, Kazimieras

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1968610014 ISBN 13: 9781968610012

Publisher: Poetry Box, 2025

Synopsis

The poems in Once Upon a World War II delve into a childhood spent living and surviving World War II, starting with Native Lithuania and ending in arrival to America. Unlike parents, children for the most part looked at wartime with a perverse degree of normalcy. Yes, there was deprivation. However, there was an innate desire to make do, in spite of all that war brings with it.

"Each poem is like a poignant photograph ... With both tenderness and rage, Campe brings the reader into life as a refugee who still manages to find childhood joys hidden in his memories."

-Mark Fishbein, Chancellor of PGN Poetry Academy

"Not to be missed, this moving glimpse of a child's experience of life in the displaced persons camp at the end of WWII. We should be thankful that the poet has delved into his memory to share this with us"

-Bradley Strahan, former editor of Visions International

"In sharply observed European vignettes, he rewards the reader with narrative and contemplative poetic insights into a life most of us will hopefully never have to live through."

-Philip Wexler, author of Bozo's Obstacle

About this title

About the Author

Kazimieras Campe is a retired nuclear engineer who has been writing poetry for over 60 years. In Once Upon a World War II he reminisces about his childhood years throughout the maelstrom of World War II. His poetry spans a number of journals and magazines, including Visions International, The Hot Callaloo, The University of Connecticut Fine Arts Magazine, The Metropolitan, Innisfree Magazine, and the Dan River Anthology. His chapbook Why Do We Look Up? delves into multiple views of the relationship between humanity and the universe. Currently he is working on a collection of poems laced with a modern perspective on Adam and Eve.

Edition details

• Publisher: Poetry Box
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1968610014
• ISBN 13: 9781968610012
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 42