My Books

So far, I published eleven books of poetry - six volumes of my own and five anthologies.  I also wrote or edited nine books on music history and Polish culture, which are listed below poetry. This is a "Poetry Laurels" blog, after all... Here are my poetry volumes, in reverse chronological order, the most recent first.

Crystal Fire. Poems of Joy and Wisdom, edited by Maja Trochimczyk, and illustrated with paintings by Ambika Talwar (Moonrise Press, October 2022). The Crystal Fire anthology gathers poems of joy and wisdom by 12 poets, 8 women and 4 men: Elżbieta Czajkowska, Joe DeCenzo, Mary Elliott, Jeff Graham, Marlene Hitt, Frederick Livingston, Alice Pero, Allegra Silberstein, Jane Stuart, Ambika Talwar, Bory Thach, and Maja Trochimczyk. The poets span all ages and diverse life experiences. They include émigrés from Poland, Cambodia, and India, and those born in the U.S. College professors join community poets. Native speakers appear alongside those for whom English is the second, or even the third language. The ”joy and wisdom” they write about are also different, as each poet follows their own path and gathers unique reflections to share with their readers. ISBN 978-1-945938-58-0 (color paperback), 188 pages.  ISBN 978-1-945938-59-7 (eBook),  instant download. With 144 poems and 12 paintings.

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Bright Skies. Selected Poems, 85 poems, 162 photographs, 184 pages.  Dedicated to the poet's children and grand-children, asking them to read and enjoy her verse “when they grow up.” The volume features 85 poems written in 2009-2022 and organized into five sections – Spring, Summer, Babie Lato, Autumn and Winter. The seasons of poetry include reflections on nature, beauty, love, life, and spirituality. The focus is on positive emotions, learning to be calm and content, full of compassion and wisdom. It is a life-long quest, and these poems are an invitation. The poems are illustrated with 160 photographs taken in the poet’s neighborhood – Big Tujunga Wash, Angeles National Forest, Descanso Gardens, and Oxnard Beach. The surprising “Coda” brings a set of recipes for old-fashioned Polish dishes mentioned in poems. 

https://moonrisepress.blogspot.com/2022/05/maja-trochimczyks-new-volume-of.html ISBN 978-1-945938-49-8, color paperback; ISBN 978-1-945938-52-8, eBook in ePub format

Maja Trochimczyk Reads "From Minium Chronicles", "Ocean of Jade" and "On Landscapes: A Guidebook" from the book on YouTube: https://youtu.be/m0i17jPRPLs

Maja Trochimczyk reads more poems from "Bright Skies" 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30QrXhNFO7Q

We Are Here: Village Poets Anthology 

edited by Maja Trochimczyk and Marlene Hitt (September 2020) 

PAPERBACK ($22 plus mailing)
ISBN 978-1-945938-39-9 (paperback) 

 EBOOK ($10)  ISBN 978-1-945938-40-5 (eBook, ePub) 

 

Edited by Maja Trochimczyk and Marlene Hitt, this anthology with work by over 80 American poets celebrates the tenth anniversary of Village Poets Monthly Readings, held since 2010 at Bolton Hall Museum in Tujunga, California - a Historical Landmark in the City of Los Angeles. The Village Poets have also held events at the McGroarty Arts Center, the former home of the California Poet-Laureate in 1933-1944, John Steven McGroarty. His Poet-Laureate role inspired the local Poet-Laureate program, initiated in 1999. The anthology's editors are both former Poets-Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga: Marlene Hitt was the First, in 1999-2001 and Dr. Maja Trochimczyk served as the Sixth in 2010-2012 when the readings were initiated. The book consists of two parts: Guests and Featured Poets, represented by 1-3 poems each; and Poets-Laureate, with 10 poets, represented by 6-9 poems each. A list of Village Poets Readings, a brief history of the program, and biographies of the poets are included. Read the list of poets and bios of editors on Moonrise Press Blog.

http://moonrisepress.com/village-poets-anthology.html

Grateful Conversations: A Poetry Anthology 

Edited by Maja Trochimczyk and Kathi Stafford

Paperback, 280 pages, with black and white illustrations

ISBN  978-1-945938-22-1  ($24.80)
Color Paperback, 280 pages with color illustrations
ISBN 978-1-945938-24-5  ($98.00)
E-Book in EPUB format with color illustrations
ISBN 978-1-945938-23-8 ($10.00)
http://www.moonrisepress.com/grateful-conversations-anthology.html

Grateful Conversations: A Poetry Anthology, edited by Maja Trochimczyk and Kathi Stafford, is a portrait of a group of female poets from California, who come together each month to hone their craft and share their verse.  Known as Westside Women Writers and active as a group since 2008, they include Millicent Borges Accardi, Madeleine S. Butcher, Georgia Jones Davis, Lois P. Jones, Susan Rogers, Kathi Stafford, Sonya Sabanac, Ambika Talwar and Maja Trochimczyk. In the words of the WWW founder, Millicent Borges Accardi, this is “a community of women writers working together to support each other with strong attention to craft, to grow as writers and as people in community.” The volume includes poems written for six workshops and self-portraits in poetry of the nine writers. 

Into Light: Poems and Incantations 

Full Color Paperback ISBN 978 194 5938-0-3-0  ($30.00)

This poetry and prayer collection presents 35 poems and 12 "incantations" that focus on the intertwined spiritual concepts of Light and Love. The poems, initially written within the Catholic mystical tradition of contemplation and adoration of the Divine presence, gradually evolved to encompass a broader scope of spiritual insights, without losing the main focus: reaching out in Love to the One Light, the Source of All. The simple and repetitive meditations and incantations are meant to inspire, uplift, and fill the heart with Light and Love. http://moonrisepress.com/into-light-by-maja-trochimczyk.html

Available as a Paperback with 82 pages in a standard trade size 6' by 9' (ISBN 978-0-9963981-8-3, $10.00), Full Color Paperback, in the same size ISBN 978 194 5938-0-3-0  ($30.00) and as E-Book in the EPUB Format, ISBN 978-0-9963981-9-0, $8.00).

The Rainy Bread: More Poems from Exile (2021, 61 poems)

ISBN 978-1-945938-47-4 Paperback with color photos, 124 pp. $40.00 plus shipping

ISBN 978-1-945938-01-6   EBook, expanded version $8.00

The Rainy Bread: Poems from Exile (2016, 30 poems)

ISBN 9781945938009, paperback, 64 pages, $10.00

ISBN 9781945938016, eBook 2nd expanded edition, $8.00

https://moonrisepress.com/the-rainy-bread-by-maja-trochimczyk.html

This volume includes 30 poems (60 poems in new eBook) 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.  These are 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 General Władysław 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 Slicing the Bread: Children’s Survival Manual in 25 Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2014), with which it shares some poems, including vignettes from the author’s childhood in Warsaw, permeated by the strange rhetoric of the Polish People’s Republic, yet still overshadowed by the war.

http://moonrisepress.com/the-rainy-bread-by-maja-trochimczyk.html
ISBN 9781945938009, paperback, 64 pages, $10.00
ISBN 9781945938016, eBook, expanded version to 60 poems, $8.00

 Slicing the Bread. Children's Survival Manual in 25 Poems, a chapbook inspired by war memories of family and friends, Finishing Line Press December 2014.  
ISBN-10: 1622296877 ISBN-13: 978-1622296873. Read more on the Poetry Laurels blog.

This unique poetry collection revisits the dark days of World War II and the post-war occupation of Poland by the Soviet Union that “liberated” the country from one foreign oppression to replace it with another.  The point of view is that of children, raised by survivors, scarred by war, wary of politics. Children experienced the hunger and cold, witnessed the killings, saw the darkening blood spilled on the snow and hands stretching from locked boxcar windows. Some heardthe voices of murdered Jews like “bees in the breeze,” others learned never to throw any food away, because “war is hunger.”  The poems, each inspired by a single object giving rise to memories like Proust’s madeleine (a spoon, a coat, the smell of incense), are divided into three sections, starting with snapshots of World War II in the Polish Borderlands (Kresy) and in central Poland. Reflections onthe Germans’ brutalkillings of Jews and Poles are followed by insights into the way the long shadow of THE war darkened a childhood spent behind the Iron Curtain.  For poet Georgia Jones Davis, this book, “brings the experience of war into shocking, immediate focus” through Trochimczyk’s use of  “her weapon: Language at its most precise and lyrical, understated and piercingly visual.”
  
According to Pulitzer-Prize nominated poet John Guzlowski, These “poems about what the Poles suffered both during World War II and The Cold War afterwards are written with the clarity of truth and the fullness of poetry…  Here are the stories of how the people she loved experienced hunger and suffering and terror so strong that it defined them and taught her, and teach us, the meaning of family.” A fellow Polish-American poet, Linda Nemec Foster praises the “unwavering honesty” and “stark imagery” of Trochimczyk’s poetry that “bear witness to the hate that destroys, to the truth that restores, and to the poetic vision that honors our common humanity.” The Tieferet Prize winner and Poets-Café host Lois P. Jones points out the “vivid and heartbreaking detail” of poems that “will move you to appreciate the simple privileges and necessities of life.” As Jones wisely observes “It is the duty of the poet to convey story, but it is the art of the poet who can transform our often cruel and brutal history and affect forever, the way we look and listen to the world.”  Poet Sharon Chmielarz concurs: “You will remember the taste of this book.”

 Meditations on Divine Names. Moonrise Press, 2012.
An anthology of contemporary poetry edited by Maja Trochimczyk.
Published in March 2012. ISBN 978-0-9819693-8-1, 216 pages, paperback. Read more about Meditations.

This anthology of contemporary poetry features 140 poems by 64 poets associated with diverse spiritual traditions. Their poems represent various branches of Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Kabbalah, Wicca, Sukiyo Mahikari, and express ideas from ancient Greek, Egyptian, Hawaiian, and Slavic religions. The book is divided into ten paired sections: Naming, Names, Earth, Water, Air, Fire, He, She, Being, and Loving. The following poets are represented: MJ Adams, Nicholas Alexander, Catherine Auman, Jon B., Marcielle Brandler, Sharon Chmielarz, Joe Decenzo, Carol Dorf, Kate Hallett Dayton, Carl Estrin, Amy Falvey, Elsa S. Frausto, Bill Gillard, Michael Graber, John Guzlowski, Peter J. Harris, Carl Hitchens, Marlene Hitt, G. Bennett Humphrey, Oriana Ivy, Mitch James, Roy Jacobstein, Lois P. Jones, James Levin, Terranda King, Alexis Krasilovsky, Leonard Kress, Sharmagne Leland-St.John, Rick Lupert, Radomir Voytech Luza, Czeslaw Milosz, Rajiv Mohabir, Geoshino Ollscia, Shirley Dunn Perry, Nils Peterson, Lenora Popa, Kate Robinson, Susan Rogers, Mary Kay Rummel, Nicholas Samaras, Peter Shefler, Marian Kaplun Shapiro, Dorothy Skiles, Lee M. Sloca, J.D. Smith, Barry Spacks, Odarka Polanskyj Stockert, Charles A. Swanson, Taoli-Ambika Talwar, Judith Terzi, Maja Trochimczyk, Ann Tweedy, Davi Walders, Martin Willitts Jr., and Kathabela Wilson

 Chopin with Cherries: A Tribute in Verse. Moonrise Press, 2010.
An anothology of poetry edited by Maja Trochimczyk.This volume celebrates the 200th birth anniversary of a Polish pianist-composer, Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) in a selection of 123 poems by 92 contemporary poets, mostly based in America. The highlights include the first English translation of Norwid's Fortepian Szopena by Leonard Kress, and classic poems by Emma Lazarus, Amy Lowell and T.S. Eliot. The poets include: Millicent Borges Accardi, Austin Alexis, Lucy Anderton, Sheila Black, George Bodmer, Lia Brooks, Kerri Buckley, Allison Campbell, Peggy Castro, Sharon Chmielarz, Victor Contoski, Clark Crouch, Beata Pozniak Daniels, Jessica Day, Diane Shipley DeCillis, Lori Desrosiers, Charlie Durrant, T. S. Eliot, David Ellis, Donna L. Emerson, Charles Ades Fishman, Jennifer S. Flescher, Gretchen Fletcher, Linda Nemec Foster, Emily Fragos, Jarek Gajewski, Helen Graziano, John Z. Guzlowski, Lola Haskins, Shayla Hawkins, Elizabyth A. Hiscox, Marlene Hitt, Roxanne Hoffman, Laura L. Mays Hoopes, Ben Humphrey, Carol J. Jennings, Charlotte Jones, Lois P. Jones, Georgia Jones-Davis, Christine Klocek-Lim, Jean L. Kreiling, Leonard Kress, Emma Lazarus, Marie Lecrivain, Jeffrey Levine, Amy Lowell, R. Romea Luminarias, Rick Lupert, Radomir V. Luza, Mira N. Mataric, Ryan McLellan, Anna Maria Mickiewicz, Elisabeth Murawski, Ruth Nolan, Cyprian Kamil Norwid, Rosemary O'Hara, Dean Pasch, Nils Peterson, Richard Pflum, William Pillin, Kenneth Pobo, Carrie A. Purcell, Marilyn N. Robertson, Susan Rogers, Alison Ross, Mary Rudge, Russell Salamon, Gabriel Shanks, Marian Kaplun Shapiro, Joseph Somoza, Lusia Slomkowska, Kathi Stafford, Maxine R. Syjuco, Fiona Sze-Lorrain, Margaret C. Szumowski, Katrin Talbot, Taoli-Ambika Talwar, Thom Tammaro, Mark Tardi, Cheryl M. Thatt, Tammy L. Tillotson, Maja Trochimczyk, Helen Vandepeer, Devi Walders, Erika Wilk, Martin Willitts, Jr., Kath Abela Wilson, Leonore Wilson, Meg Withers, Anne Harding Woodworth, and Marianne Worthington.

Published in February 2010 by Moonrise Press.
ISBN 978-0-9819693-0-5. Available in Paperback and PDF.
Read more about this anthology on the Chopin with Cherries blog.
Review by John Z. Guzlowski in The Cosmopolitan Review 2 no. 1 (Spring 2010).

From a review by Christopher Woods in Contemporary World Literature 5 (February 2011): "For those who have been moved by the music of Fryderyk Chopin, this new international anthology will be a treat... One breathtaking aspect of the anthology is the diversity of voices, both stylistically and geographically... [Among] the striking aspects of the anthology is the way in which the editor, Polish born Maja Trochimczyk, arranges the various sections, not only by musical forms, but also into sections like beauty and death, words that often come to mind when considering Chopin's life, his passions and his early demise."

Rose Always - A Love Story (224 p.)

 ISBN 978-1-945938-48-1 (color hardcover)

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 Rose Always - A Love Story.  Moonrise Press, 2020, 224 pages, with 90 rose photos, in seven parts.  Hardcover color paperback, $48.00. This is the third revised, expanded, version changed so much as to become its First Edition, of a book I've worked on since 2007.  "Surprisingly sweet and gentle, this love story is told in 169 poems set into seven parts (Wishing, Seeing, Longing, Knowing, Feeling, Loving, Being). Inspired by Life itself and great love-literature classics, especially The Songs of Songs, with its surreal mixture of the romantic and the spiritual, this collection is Maja Trochimczyk’s most intimate and poignant poetry book, following a series of music studies and poetry anthologies."

From the review by Margaret Saine: "Trochimczyk quotes as one of her inspirations the blessed Hadewijch, or Édvige, the 13th century poet and mystic from Brabant. Each idea or allegory is suggestively superimposed on a partial photograph of a rose, based on photographs by the author. It is a pleasure to detect the intricate structure of this book of poems so reminiscent of the European and Latin American Baroque. But the greatest pleasure by far is to let oneself be carried by the profusion of poems that fill this lyrical cornucopia."

 Miriam's Iris, or Angels in the Garden. Moonrise Press, 2008.

Read a sample of poems here. A collection of 60 poems organized around appearances of six angels: Amor, Eros, Eloe, Thanatos, Ellenai, and Sophia. The poems are intertwined with interludes of memory, nostalgia, and nature mysticism. The book is illustrated with photos of landscapes and gardens of Southern California. Published in 2008. Distributed by Amazon.com, lulu.com, etc. Paperback: ISBN 978-0-578-00166-1. Hardcover with Color Photos (Second Edition, 126 pp.):ISBN 978-0-9819693-2-9.

Reviewed by G. Murray Thomas, at poetix.net (February 2010). "Rarely does one find a book of poetry which holds together as well as Miriam's Iris."

From a review by Margaret Saine, for the California Quarterly (Fall 2015): 
"Each garden represents, or is represented by, an angel, from Amor to Sophia, standing for the sixtuple sequence of Romance, Desire, Grief, Death, Peace, and Wisdom. Each of these cycles is again represented by six poems, like pearls on a necklace. These six allegorical gardens, or in modern terms, emotions and stages of life, represent a progression in which, significantly, death is not the end, but is overcome by the last two, the transcendent and still deeply utopian personal visions of Peace and Wisdom. The poet concludes each of the six sections with an Interlude, a transition path into the next garden, as it were: the ending becomes a new beginning. These interludes remind me of the musical “Promenades” that Mussorgsky interposes between the sound paintings of his “Pictures at an Exhibition.” In turn, each interlude at the end of the garden is followed by a free-flowing tanka or haiku-like text in Italics titled “In Passing,” flanked on each side by blank pages, that is, open on each side, to past and future, as if to epitomize the open-ended-ness and volatility of poetry and the human experience. Though this structure seems somewhat rigorous, as described here, without the delicate poetry it envelops, it is far from rigid, creating an almost novelistic air, there is a supple feeling indeed to the succession of poems. One after the other, the garden chapters, or outdoor chambers, as it were, are suspenseful to read and filled with delicious surprises...I would like to recommend this book warmly to the reader... "

BOOKS ABOUT MUSIC AND CULTURE

ISBN 978-1-945938-55-9, paperback; ISBN 978-1-945938-56-6, hardcover

ISBN 978010945938-57-3, e-book in e-Pub format

Celebrating Modjeska in California: History of Helena Modjeska Art & Culture Club is a case study of one Polonian organization, active since 1971, that reveals the interests, activities, successes and challenges of successive waves of Polish immigrants to America, especially the generation of the Displaced Persons (survivors and veterans of World War II, mostly inter-war Polish intelligentsia), and of the Solidarity-era (activists of anti-communist movement, "tourists" who came to work and overstayed their visas, and creative/enterprising individuals seeking to further their careers).  The book is dedicated to "all Polish émigrés and exiles dispersed throughout the world who remained faithful to the Polish language and culture, especially to all the volunteers of the Helena Modjeska Art & Culture

Club in Los Angeles, promoting Polish culture in California." It consists of ten chapters starting from a biography of the Club's patron, actress Helena Modjeska (1840-1909); a survey of Polish Americans and their organizations in California; a biography of the Club's founder, actor Leonidas Dudarew-Ossetynski (1910-1989). Six chapters are dedicated to "eras" in the Club's history, from the Kingdom of Leonidas (1971-1978), through the times of Solidarity immigrants (1978-1989), the birth of Poland's Third Republic (1989-1998), the period of stabilization and status quo (1998-2010), the arrival of new people and ideas (2010-2018), and surviving challenges (2018-2023). The tenth chapter is a summary with conclusions and recommendations. The book includes index and many illustrations from the archives of: Helena Modjeska Art & Culture Club, Polish Museum of America in Chicago, Valerie Dudarew-Ossetynska Hunken - the founder's daughter, American Council of Polish Culture (formerly "of Polish Cultural Clubs"), Institute of National Remembrance, Maja Trochimczyk, and other private and public archives. Net revenue from this publication is donated to the Modjeska Club.

    The project is financed by the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland as part of the Competition “Polonia and Poles Abroad 2023.” The publication expresses only the views of the author and cannot be identified with an official position of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister. The work is part of the project entitled "I will show you Poland —stimulating the Polish community and Poles abroad to act in the Polish national interest."

Projekt finansowany ze środków Kancelarii Prezesa Rady Ministrów Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej w ramach konkursu „Polonia i Polacy za Granicą 2023”. Publikacja wyraża jedynie poglądy autora i nie może być utożsamiana z oficjalnym stanowiskiem Kancelarii Prezesa Rady Ministrów. Praca jest częścią projektu pt. „Pokażę Ci Polskę – stymulowanie środowisk Polonii i Polaków poza granicami kraju do działania w polskim interesie narodowym”.

Album 50-lecia Klubu Klutury im Heleny Modrzejewskiej, co-edited with Elzbieta Kanski and Elzbieta Trybus, Moonrise Press, 2021, 380 pages, PDF edition, 8.5-by-11-in. pages. http://moonrisepress.com/album-50-lecia-klubu.html

This history of the Helena Modjeska Art and Culture Club, in Polish (July 2021) was edited by dr. Maja Trochimczyk, Elżbieta Kanski and dr. Elżbieta Trybuś. The nearly 380-page volume documents 50 years of cultural activities of the Helena Modjeska Art and Culture Club in Los Angeles, established in 1971 by actor-director Leonidas Dudarew-Ossetyński and other Polish emigres in California. ​The volume consists of essays, interviews, lists of club's events and other documents, richly illustrated with color photographs taken over the 50 years of the Club's history. Texts by: Anna Maria Anders, Tadeusz Bociański, Krysta Close, Dorota Czajka-Olszewska, Zofia Czajkowska, Witold Czajkowski, Zofia Cybulska-Adamowicz, Leonidas Dudarew-Ossetyński, Jadwiga Inglis, Michal Jasień, Tomasz Kachelski, Elżbieta Kański, Krystyna Kuszta, Jarosław Łasiński, Andrzej Maleski, Dr. Mira N. Mataric, Marta Ojrzyńska, Maria Pilatowicz, Edward Piłatowicz, Dr. Kleofas Rundzio, Andrzej Seweryn, Katarzyna Śmiechowicz, Jan Świder, Dr. Maja Trochimczyk, Dr. Elżbieta Trybuś and Jolanta Zych. The publication of this volume was made possible by a grant from the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Los Angeles, and the generous support of Moonrise Press. More information, in Polish: 

https://klubmodrzejewskiej.blogspot.com/2021/07/album-50-lecia-klubu-kultury-im-heleny.html.

Gorecki in Context: Essays on Music (2017)

This volume gathers interviews and studies of the music of the Polish composer,  Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (1933-2010). Contributors include the composer himself – in a series of interviews spanning his entire career, from 1962 to 2008 – as well as leading Górecki scholars from Poland, the U.K., the U.S., and Australia. Chapters highlight three of the four symphonies: the Second Copernican (Kinga Kiwała), the Third, The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs(Maja Trochimczyk) and the Fourth Tansman Episodes (Andrzej Wendland). Two studies by eminent Polish scholar and Górecki’s personal friend, Prof. Teresa Malecka present the composer’s links to Polish musical traditions and an overview of his piano music.  An overview of Górecki’s life and career and a case study of his visit to Los Angeles in 1997, when he conducted his Third Symphony for the first time outside of Poland, round up the volume. The collection includes also a list of works, music examples, photographs, and a bibliography.More information, table of contents, preface may be found on Moonrise Press Blog.

ISBN 9781945938108. Paperback, 420 pages, $40.00. Divided into Four E-Books, E-Pub Format, $10 ea. 

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Lutosławski: Music and Legacy

Edited by Stanisław Latek and Maja Trochimczyk, 2014

 Montreal : Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in Canada ; Cracow : Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2014. ISBN 9788376761992 / ISBN 8376761994 / ISBN 9780986885143 / ISBN 0986885142.  Polish and Canadian copies required distinct ISBN numbers. 

Lutoslawski: Music and Legacy contains proceedings of the International Lutoslawski Conference, held at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, November 21, 2013, as well as interviews with the composer and documents from his 1993 visit to the Polish Institute and McGill University. 

http://chopinwithcherries.blogspot.com/2017/01/lutoslawski-music-and-legacy-by.html

Frederic Chopin: A Research and Information Guide 
Routledge Music Bibliographies Series, edited with William Smialek,
Second Revised Edition, Routledge, 2015. 

http://www.amazon.com/Fredric-Chopin-Information-Routledge-Bibliographies/dp/0815321805

ISBN 978-0-415-99884-0 This annotated bibliography concerns both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him, his compositions, and his influence as a composer. The second edition includes research published since the publication of the first edition and provides electronic resources

	A Romantic Century in Polish Music. Collection of essays by Magdalena Dziadek, Martina Homma, Krzysztof Rottermund, Krzysztof Szatrawski, Maria Zduniak, and the editor. Essays about Lipinski in Wroclaw, Lipinski's violins, Wieniawski's virtuosity, the reception of Wagner, Paderewski's mystique, women composers, and other issues. Moonrise Press, December 2009. ISBN 978-0-9819693-3-6 Details.
	Polish Dance in Southern California. East European Monographs Series, Columbia University Press, 2007. A study of folk dance groups created by émigré amateurs and the influence of folk-song-and-dance ensembles from Poland on the Polish dance movement in America. Based on a 1999 research project of the Southern California Studies Center at USC.
	The Music of Louis Andriessen. Studies and interviews with the composer by Trochimczyk, additional texts by Dutch contributors: Elmer SchĂśnberger, Frits van der Waa, and Reinbert de Leeuw. New York: Routledge, 2002, 317 pp. With music examples, diagrams, illustrations, list of works, discography, bibliography, index. [See: Routledge (Taylor & Francis), Amazon.com.]
	After Chopin: Studies in Polish Music. Collection of essays about Szymanowski, Lutoslawski, Ingarden; and source readings by Polish composers discussing Chopin. Editor, translator, and author of 3 entries (introduction, essays on Ingarden, and national anthems, listed below separately). Los Angeles: Polish Music Center at USC, 2000, 333 pp. Polish Music History Series, vol. 6.