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Book Title
Ekaterinoslav : One Family's Passage to America: a Memoir in Verse
Publication Name
Ekaterinoslav
Title
Ekaterinoslav
Subtitle
One Family's Passage to America: A Memoir in Verse
Author
Jane Yolen
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
0983325464
EAN
9780983325468
ISBN
9780983325468
Publisher
Holy Cow! Press
Genre
Poetry
Topic
General, American / General
Release Year
2012
Release Date
30/10/2012
Language
English
Item Height
0.2in
Item Length
9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
4.6 Oz
Publication Year
2012
Number of Pages
72 Pages

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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 country, a shtetl, a home. I can do no more. Jane Yolen , often called the Hans Christian Andersen of America, is the author of over three hundred books, including Owl Moon and The Devil's Arithmetic , many of them prize-winners, including the Jewish Library Association's top honor.

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Holy Cow! Press
ISBN-10
0983325464
ISBN-13
9780983325468
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Book Title
Ekaterinoslav : One Family's Passage to America: a Memoir in Verse
Author
Jane Yolen
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, American / General
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
72 Pages

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Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.2in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
4.6 Oz

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Reviews
"Jane Yolen, master storyteller of myth and fantasy offers us a different kind of tale this time--a compelling, unsentimental family narrative told eloquently in verse. She recreates 'a lifetime, a country, a shtetl' and one family's circuitous and rocky journey toward the American Dream. In her vivid, poetic resurrection of family, Jane Yolen confirms what I always suspected--that storytelling is an integral part of her ancestral DNA."--Mira Bartok, author of The Memory Palace (New York Times bestselling memoir, National Book Critics Circle Award Winner) "What is the hunger, so fundamental, to know the generations long gone who gave birth to us--to know intimately their stories, their pogram heartache, their immigrant pluck? Jane Yolen remembers, imagines, invents her shtetl bubbies and greenhorn zaydies, her bootleg uncles, vividly resurrecting them with insight, vision, compassion, love. We sit at the table wide-eyed, enchanted by her gift inherited from them--the well-told story."--Merle Feld, author of A Spiritual Life: Exploring the Heart and Jewish Tradition and Finding Words "Jane Yolen's Ekaterinoslav is a rich salmagundi of speculative autobiography and imagined reminiscence, marinated in compelling verse. The reader is pulled along inexorably with an unforgettable cast of kinfolk through fortune and folly from an 1870s Ukrainian shtetl to Ellis Island. Ekaterinoslav is as beautiful a celebration of life--and lament for death--as you would expect from one of the world's foremost storytellers."--J. Patrick Lewis, U.S. Children's Poet Laureate (2011-2013) "When death, 'that old interrupter,' claims Jane Yolen's father, she learns that he was born in Ekaterinoslav, not New Haven and named Wolf, not Will. A poet's job is to turn facts into truths, and Yolen, a master storyteller, does this beautifully in this memoir-in-verse, which brings to life another time and place that no longer exists, but thanks to Yolen, will now never be forgotten. I was mesmerized by these moving, heartfelt poems."--Lesléa Newman, author of October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard "Jane Yolen's new work, Ekaterinoslav, is a moving memoir, part family story, part immigrant fable. The strong narrative pull of the poems propels the reader forward wanting to know what will happen next with each personality deftly captured in the sparest descriptions of a few sharp lines. The shifting mood of the story weaves gracefully through the poems, skillfully translating historical facts and family truths. The final poem offers a personal, powerful conclusion, as Yolen moves from the past to the present using poetry 'to reinvent moment and memory.'"--Sylvia M. Vardell, Ph.D., author of Poetry Aloud Here and The Poetry Teacher's Book of Lists "Jane Yolen knows the outlines, not the details, or even many of the major steps of her family's journey, and she uses the imagination that has helped her create more than 300 children's books as well as her family trove of old photographs to create a poetic re-creation that, in unrhymed, very loose-metered lines, makes a splendid piece of theater of the mind, distinctive yet universal, based on one of America's foundational legends."--Ray Olsen, Booklist, " Jane Yolen , master storyteller of myth and fantasy offers us a different kind of tale this time--a compelling, unsentimental family narrative told eloquently in verse. She recreates 'a lifetime, a country, a shtetl' and one family's circuitous and rocky journey toward the American Dream. In her vivid, poetic resurrection of family, Jane Yolen confirms what I always suspected--that storytelling is an integral part of her ancestral DNA."-- Mira Bartok , author of The Memory Palace (New York Times bestselling memoir, National Book Critics Circle Award Winner) "What is the hunger, so fundamental, to know the generations long gone who gave birth to us--to know intimately their stories, their pogram heartache, their immigrant pluck? Jane Yolen remembers, imagines, invents her shtetl bubbies and greenhorn zaydies, her bootleg uncles, vividly resurrecting them with insight, vision, compassion, love. We sit at the table wide-eyed, enchanted by her gift inherited from them--the well-told story."-- Merle Feld , author of A Spiritual Life: Exploring the Heart and Jewish Tradition and Finding Words " Jane Yolen 's Ekaterinoslav is a rich salmagundi of speculative autobiography and imagined reminiscence, marinated in compelling verse. The reader is pulled along inexorably with an unforgettable cast of kinfolk through fortune and folly from an 1870s Ukrainian shtetl to Ellis Island. Ekaterinoslav is as beautiful a celebration of life--and lament for death--as you would expect from one of the world's foremost storytellers."-- J. Patrick Lewis , U.S. Children's Poet Laureate (2011-2013) "When death, 'that old interrupter,' claims Jane Yolen 's father, she learns that he was born in Ekaterinoslav, not New Haven and named Wolf, not Will. A poet's job is to turn facts into truths, and Yolen, a master storyteller, does this beautifully in this memoir-in-verse, which brings to life another time and place that no longer exists, but thanks to Yolen, will now never be forgotten. I was mesmerized by these moving, heartfelt poems."-- Lesléa Newman , author of October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard " Jane Yolen 's new work, Ekaterinoslav , is a moving memoir, part family story, part immigrant fable. The strong narrative pull of the poems propels the reader forward wanting to know what will happen next with each personality deftly captured in the sparest descriptions of a few sharp lines. The shifting mood of the story weaves gracefully through the poems, skillfully translating historical facts and family truths. The final poem offers a personal, powerful conclusion, as Yolen moves from the past to the present using poetry 'to reinvent moment and memory.'"-- Sylvia M. Vardell, Ph.D. , author of Poetry Aloud Here and The Poetry Teacher's Book of Lists " Jane Yolen knows the outlines, not the details, or even many of the major steps of her family's journey, and she uses the imagination that has helped her create more than 300 children's books as well as her family trove of old photographs to create a poetic re-creation that, in unrhymed, very loose-metered lines, makes a splendid piece of theater of the mind, distinctive yet universal, based on one of America's foundational legends."-- Ray Olsen , Booklist, " Jane Yolen , master storyteller of myth and fantasy offers us a different kind of tale this time--a compelling, unsentimental family narrative told eloquently in verse. She recreates 'a lifetime, a country, a shtetl' and one family's circuitous and rocky journey toward the American Dream. In her vivid, poetic resurrection of family, Jane Yolen confirms what I always suspected--that storytelling is an integral part of her ancestral DNA."-- Mira Bartok , author of The Memory Palace (New York Times bestselling memoir, National Book Critics Circle Award Winner) "What is the hunger, so fundamental, to know the generations long gone who gave birth to us--to know intimately their stories, their pogram heartache, their immigrant pluck?  Jane Yolen remembers, imagines, invents her shtetl bubbies and greenhorn zaydies, her bootleg uncles, vividly resurrecting them with insight, vision, compassion, love. We sit at the table wide-eyed, enchanted by her gift inherited from them--the well-told story."-- Merle Feld , author of A Spiritual Life: Exploring the Heart and Jewish Tradition and Finding Words " Jane Yolen 's  Ekaterinoslav  is a rich salmagundi of speculative autobiography and imagined reminiscence, marinated in compelling verse. The reader is pulled along inexorably with an unforgettable cast of kinfolk through fortune and folly from an 1870s Ukrainian shtetl to Ellis Island.  Ekaterinoslav is as beautiful a celebration of life--and lament for death--as you would expect from one of the world's foremost storytellers."-- J. Patrick Lewis , U.S. Children's Poet Laureate (2011-2013) "When death, 'that old interrupter,' claims Jane Yolen 's father, she learns that he was born in Ekaterinoslav, not New Haven and named Wolf, not Will. A poet's job is to turn facts into truths, and Yolen, a master storyteller, does this beautifully in this memoir-in-verse, which brings to life another time and place that no longer exists, but thanks to Yolen, will now never be forgotten. I was mesmerized by these moving, heartfelt poems."-- Lesla Newman , author of October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard " Jane Yolen 's new work, Ekaterinoslav , is a moving memoir, part family story, part immigrant fable. The strong narrative pull of the poems propels the reader forward wanting to know what will happen next with each personality deftly captured in the sparest descriptions of a few sharp lines. The shifting mood of the story weaves gracefully through the poems, skillfully translating historical facts and family truths. The final poem offers a personal, powerful conclusion, as Yolen moves from the past to the present using poetry 'to reinvent moment and memory.'"-- Sylvia M. Vardell, Ph.D. , author of Poetry Aloud Here and The Poetry Teacher's Book of Lists " Jane Yolen knows the outlines, not the details, or even many of the major steps of her family's journey, and she uses the imagination that has helped her create more than 300 children's books as well as her family trove of old photographs to create a poetic re-creation that, in unrhymed, very loose-metered lines, makes a splendid piece of theater of the mind, distinctive yet universal, based on one of America's foundational legends."-- Ray Olsen , Booklist, Jane Yolen , master storyteller of myth and fantasy offers us a different kind of tale this time—a compelling, unsentimental family narrative told eloquently in verse. She recreates 'a lifetime, a country, a shtetl' and one family's circuitous and rocky journey toward the American Dream. In her vivid, poetic resurrection of family, Jane Yolen confirms what I always suspected—that storytelling is an integral part of her ancestral DNA."— Mira Bartok , author of The Memory Palace (New York Times bestselling memoir, National Book Critics Circle Award Winner) What is the hunger, so fundamental, to know the generations long gone who gave birth to us—to know intimately their stories, their pogram heartache, their immigrant pluck?  Jane Yolen remembers, imagines, invents her shtetl bubbies and greenhorn zaydies, her bootleg uncles, vividly resurrecting them with insight, vision, compassion, love. We sit at the table wide-eyed, enchanted by her gift inherited from them—the well-told story."— Merle Feld , author of A Spiritual Life: Exploring the Heart and Jewish Tradition and Finding Words Jane Yolen 's  Ekaterinoslav  is a rich salmagundi of speculative autobiography and imagined reminiscence, marinated in compelling verse. The reader is pulled along inexorably with an unforgettable cast of kinfolk through fortune and folly from an 1870s Ukrainian shtetl to Ellis Island.  Ekaterinoslav is as beautiful a celebration of life—and lament for death—as you would expect from one of the world's foremost storytellers."— J. Patrick Lewis , U.S. Children's Poet Laureate (2011-2013) When death, 'that old interrupter,' claims Jane Yolen 's father, she learns that he was born in Ekaterinoslav, not New Haven and named Wolf, not Will. A poet's job is to turn facts into truths, and Yolen, a master storyteller, does this beautifully in this memoir-in-verse, which brings to life another time and place that no longer exists, but thanks to Yolen, will now never be forgotten. I was mesmerized by these moving, heartfelt poems."— Lesléa Newman , author of October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard Jane Yolen 's new work, Ekaterinoslav , is a moving memoir, part family story, part immigrant fable. The strong narrative pull of the poems propels the reader forward wanting to know what will happen next with each personality deftly captured in the sparest descriptions of a few sharp lines. The shifting mood of the story weaves gracefully through the poems, skillfully translating historical facts and family truths. The final poem offers a personal, powerful conclusion, as Yolen moves from the past to the present using poetry 'to reinvent moment and memory.'"— Sylvia M. Vardell, Ph.D. , author of Poetry Aloud Here and The Poetry Teacher's Book of Lists " Jane Yolen knows the outlines, not the details, or even many of the major steps of her family's journey, and she uses the imagination that has helped her create more than 300 children's books as well as her family trove of old photographs to create a poetic re-creation that, in unrhymed, very loose-metered lines, makes a splendid piece of theater of the mind, distinctive yet universal, based on one of America's foundational legends."— Ray Olsen , Booklist, Jane Yolen, master storyteller of myth and fantasy offers us a different kind of tale this time—a compelling, unsentimental family narrative told eloquently in verse. She recreates 'a lifetime, a country, a shtetl' and one family's circuitous and rocky journey toward the American Dream. In her vivid, poetic resurrection of family, Jane Yolen confirms what I always suspected—that storytelling is an integral part of her ancestral DNA."--Mira Bartok, author of The Memory Palace (New York Times bestselling memoir, National Book Critics Circle Award Winner) What is the hunger, so fundamental, to know the generations long gone who gave birth to us--to know intimately their stories, their pogram heartache, their immigrant pluck? Jane Yolen remembers, imagines, invents her shtetl bubbies and greenhorn zaydies, her bootleg uncles, vividly resurrecting them with insight, vision, compassion, love. We sit at the table wide-eyed, enchanted by her gift inherited from them--the well-told story."--Merle Feld, author of A Spiritual Life: Exploring the Heart and Jewish Tradition and Finding Words Jane Yolen's  Ekaterinoslav is a rich salmagundi of speculative autobiography and imagined reminiscence, marinated in compelling verse. The reader is pulled along inexorably with an unforgettable cast of kinfolk through fortune and folly from an 1870s Ukrainian shtetl to Ellis Island. Ekaterinoslav is as beautiful a celebration of life—and lament for death—as you would expect from one of the world's foremost storytellers."--J. Patrick Lewis, U.S. Children's Poet Laureate (2011-2013) When death, 'that old interrupter,' claims Jane Yolen's father, she learns that he was born in Ekaterinoslav, not New Haven and named Wolf, not Will. A poet's job is to turn facts into truths, and Yolen, a master storyteller, does this beautifully in this memoir-in-verse, which brings to life another time and place that no longer exists, but thanks to Yolen, will now never be forgotten. I was mesmerized by these moving, heartfelt poems."--Lesléa Newman, author of October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard Jane Yolen's new work, Ekaterinoslav, is a moving memoir, part family story, part immigrant fable. The strong narrative pull of the poems propels the reader forward wanting to know what will happen next with each personality deftly captured in the sparest descriptions of a few sharp lines. The shifting mood of the story weaves gracefully through the poems, skillfully translating historical facts and family truths. The final poem offers a personal, powerful conclusion, as Yolen moves from the past to the present using poetry 'to reinvent moment and memory.'"--Sylvia M. Vardell, Ph.D., author of Poetry Aloud Here and The Poetry Teacher's Book of Lists, " Jane Yolen , master storyteller of myth and fantasy offers us a different kind of tale this time--a compelling, unsentimental family narrative told eloquently in verse. She recreates 'a lifetime, a country, a shtetl' and one family's circuitous and rocky journey toward the American Dream. In her vivid, poetic resurrection of family, Jane Yolen confirms what I always suspected--that storytelling is an integral part of her ancestral DNA."-- Mira Bartok , author of The Memory Palace (New York Times bestselling memoir, National Book Critics Circle Award Winner) "What is the hunger, so fundamental, to know the generations long gone who gave birth to us--to know intimately their stories, their pogram heartache, their immigrant pluck?  Jane Yolen remembers, imagines, invents her shtetl bubbies and greenhorn zaydies, her bootleg uncles, vividly resurrecting them with insight, vision, compassion, love. We sit at the table wide-eyed, enchanted by her gift inherited from them--the well-told story."-- Merle Feld , author of A Spiritual Life: Exploring the Heart and Jewish Tradition and Finding Words " Jane Yolen 's  Ekaterinoslav  is a rich salmagundi of speculative autobiography and imagined reminiscence, marinated in compelling verse. The reader is pulled along inexorably with an unforgettable cast of kinfolk through fortune and folly from an 1870s Ukrainian shtetl to Ellis Island.  Ekaterinoslav is as beautiful a celebration of life--and lament for death--as you would expect from one of the world's foremost storytellers."-- J. Patrick Lewis , U.S. Children's Poet Laureate (2011-2013) "When death, 'that old interrupter,' claims Jane Yolen 's father, she learns that he was born in Ekaterinoslav, not New Haven and named Wolf, not Will. A poet's job is to turn facts into truths, and Yolen, a master storyteller, does this beautifully in this memoir-in-verse, which brings to life another time and place that no longer exists, but thanks to Yolen, will now never be forgotten. I was mesmerized by these moving, heartfelt poems."-- Lesléa Newman , author of October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard " Jane Yolen 's new work, Ekaterinoslav , is a moving memoir, part family story, part immigrant fable. The strong narrative pull of the poems propels the reader forward wanting to know what will happen next with each personality deftly captured in the sparest descriptions of a few sharp lines. The shifting mood of the story weaves gracefully through the poems, skillfully translating historical facts and family truths. The final poem offers a personal, powerful conclusion, as Yolen moves from the past to the present using poetry 'to reinvent moment and memory.'"-- Sylvia M. Vardell, Ph.D. , author of Poetry Aloud Here and The Poetry Teacher's Book of Lists " Jane Yolen knows the outlines, not the details, or even many of the major steps of her family's journey, and she uses the imagination that has helped her create more than 300 children's books as well as her family trove of old photographs to create a poetic re-creation that, in unrhymed, very loose-metered lines, makes a splendid piece of theater of the mind, distinctive yet universal, based on one of America's foundational legends."-- Ray Olsen , Booklist, "Jane Yolen, master storyteller of myth and fantasy offers us a different kind of tale this time--a compelling, unsentimental family narrative told eloquently in verse. She recreates 'a lifetime, a country, a shtetl' and one family's circuitous and rocky journey toward the American Dream. In her vivid, poetic resurrection of family, Jane Yolen confirms what I always suspected--that storytelling is an integral part of her ancestral DNA."--Mira Bartok, author of The Memory Palace (New York Times bestselling memoir, National Book Critics Circle Award Winner) "What is the hunger, so fundamental, to know the generations long gone who gave birth to us--to know intimately their stories, their pogram heartache, their immigrant pluck? Jane Yolen remembers, imagines, invents her shtetl bubbies and greenhorn zaydies, her bootleg uncles, vividly resurrecting them with insight, vision, compassion, love. We sit at the table wide-eyed, enchanted by her gift inherited from them--the well-told story."--Merle Feld, author of A Spiritual Life: Exploring the Heart and Jewish Tradition and Finding Words "Jane Yolen's Ekaterinoslav is a rich salmagundi of speculative autobiography and imagined reminiscence, marinated in compelling verse. The reader is pulled along inexorably with an unforgettable cast of kinfolk through fortune and folly from an 1870s Ukrainian shtetl to Ellis Island. Ekaterinoslav is as beautiful a celebration of life--and lament for death--as you would expect from one of the world's foremost storytellers."--J. Patrick Lewis, U.S. Children's Poet Laureate (2011-2013) "When death, 'that old interrupter,' claims Jane Yolen's father, she learns that he was born in Ekaterinoslav, not New Haven and named Wolf, not Will. A poet's job is to turn facts into truths, and Yolen, a master storyteller, does this beautifully in this memoir-in-verse, which brings to life another time and place that no longer exists, but thanks to Yolen, will now never be forgotten. I was mesmerized by these moving, heartfelt poems."--Lesla Newman, author of October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard "Jane Yolen's new work, Ekaterinoslav, is a moving memoir, part family story, part immigrant fable. The strong narrative pull of the poems propels the reader forward wanting to know what will happen next with each personality deftly captured in the sparest descriptions of a few sharp lines. The shifting mood of the story weaves gracefully through the poems, skillfully translating historical facts and family truths. The final poem offers a personal, powerful conclusion, as Yolen moves from the past to the present using poetry 'to reinvent moment and memory.'"--Sylvia M. Vardell, Ph.D., author of Poetry Aloud Here and The Poetry Teacher's Book of Lists "Jane Yolen knows the outlines, not the details, or even many of the major steps of her family's journey, and she uses the imagination that has helped her create more than 300 children's books as well as her family trove of old photographs to create a poetic re-creation that, in unrhymed, very loose-metered lines, makes a splendid piece of theater of the mind, distinctive yet universal, based on one of America's foundational legends."--Ray Olsen, Booklist
Table of Content
Table of Contents A Note from the Poet EKATERINOSLAV 1873-1913 Picture This The Pale Cossacks Pogrom Spinster Cholera Names Red Hair, Blue Eyes Round Frame Furrows Photograph PASSAGE 1912-1914 First Wave: Lou Leaving Home Lou Going Ahead Second Wave: The Girls Hold Hands Across the Sea Manifests Third Wave: Second Class Liberty Enlightening the World Ellis Island Mathematics Declaration of Intention Passage Through the Great Hall Admitted GREENHORNS 1914-1939 Dapper Dan Milliner Middle Class Bottle Greenhorns Night School Beyond the Pale Cousins Furs Will Rebirth Glossary
Copyright Date
2012
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2012-009675
Dewey Decimal
811/.54 B
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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