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In Ekaterinoslav , award-winning author Jane Yolen writes about her father's family journey from a small shtetl in the Ukraine in the early part of the twentieth century, through the Ellis Island portal, to a home in New Haven, Connecticut. Her father, only seven at the time, grew up wholly American and never spoke to her of the family's passage. Here, through these brilliant poems, she pieces together a history of her family. Her poems are a celebration of passage, of ritual lost and then found, of a family who left a land of custom and arrived at a place of opportunity. As she says in the poem "Round Frame": All those years Ekaterinoslav was lost to me, when I could have celebrated Ukrainian winters, learned words of love, fashion, passion, paternity; how to season the fish with pepper, not sugar; how to cut the farfl from flat sheets of dough. All I had was New Haven. Until she comes to understand with the words of the final poem, "Rebirth" I have written these poems as resurrection. I have molded these words to reinvent moment and memory. I have crafted these short lines for the ones who come after, my children's children. For them I've created, recreated really, a lifetime, a

Author

Jane Yolen

Publisher

Distributed to the trade by Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, Holy Cow! Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780983325468

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Poetry

Rating

5 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14