Background
He grew up and attended high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania, a small steel town in western Pennsylvania.
He 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 Bachelor in 1984.
Later that year he traveled to Poland on a fellowship from the Kosciuszko Foundation to attend Krakow"s Jagiellonian University. After the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, he decided to settle permanently in Poland. Since then he has lived in Gliwice, an industrial city in Upper Silesia.
Yankevich writes poems in both traditional metre and in syllabics, and only occasionally in free verse.
He is 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, Boleslaw Lesmian, 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.
Nothing remains after philosophy but physical reality, be it dew on a lovely girl"s maidenhood, or twisted wreckage after a tank battle.".
Quotations: Nothing remains after philosophy but physical reality, be it dew on a lovely girl"s maidenhood, or twisted wreckage after a tank battle.".