Ekaterinoslav - by Jane Yolen (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Jane Yolen creates the immigrant history, in evocative poetry and photographs, of her family's passage to America from 1800s Ukraine.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In <i>Ekaterinoslav</i>, 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.</p><p>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: </p><p><i>All those years Ekaterinoslav<br>was lost to me, when I could have celebrated<br>Ukrainian winters, learned words of love, <br>fashion, passion, paternity; <p/>how to season the fish with pepper, not sugar;<br>how to cut the farfl from flat sheets of dough.<br>All I had was New Haven.</i></p><p>Until she comes to understand with the words of the final poem, Rebirth</p><p><i>I have written these<br>poems as resurrection.<br>I have molded these words<br>to reinvent moment and memory.<br>I have crafted these short lines<br>for the ones who come after, <br>my children's children.<br>For them I've created, <br>recreated really, <br>a lifetime, <br>a country, <br>a shtetl, <br>a home.</i></p><p><i>I can do no more.</i></p><p><b>Jane Yolen</b>, often called the Hans Christian Andersen of America, is the author of over three hundred books, including <i>Owl Moon</i> and <i>The Devil's Arithmetic</i>, many of them prize-winners, including the Jewish Library Association's top honor.</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"<b>Jane Yolen</b>, 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."--<b>Mira Bartok</b>, author of <i>The Memory Palace</i> (New York Times bestselling memoir, National Book Critics Circle Award Winner) <p/>"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? <b>Jane Yolen</b> 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."--<b>Merle Feld</b>, author of <i>A Spiritual Life: Exploring the Heart and Jewish Tradition</i> and <i>Finding Words</i> <p/>"<b>Jane Yolen</b>'s <i>Ekaterinoslav</i> 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. <i>Ekaterinoslav</i> is as beautiful a celebration of life--and lament for death--as you would expect from one of the world's foremost storytellers."--<b>J. Patrick Lewis</b>, U.S. Children's Poet Laureate (2011-2013) <p/>"When death, 'that old interrupter, ' claims <b>Jane Yolen</b>'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."--<b>Lesléa Newman</b>, author of <i>October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard</i> <p/>"<b>Jane Yolen</b>'s new work, <i>Ekaterinoslav</i>, 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.'"--<b>Sylvia M. Vardell, Ph.D.</b>, author of <i>Poetry Aloud Here</i> and <i>The Poetry Teacher's Book of Lists</i> <p/><b>Jane Yolen</b> 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.--<b>Ray Olsen</b>, <i>Booklist</i><br><br><br>"<strong>Jane Yolen</strong>, 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."--<strong>Mira Bartok</strong>, author of <em>The Memory Palace</em> (New York Times bestselling memoir, National Book Critics Circle Award Winner) <p/>"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? <strong>Jane Yolen</strong> 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."--<strong>Merle Feld</strong>, author of <em>A Spiritual Life: Exploring the Heart and Jewish Tradition</em> and <em>Finding Words</em> <p/>"<strong>Jane Yolen</strong>'s <em>Ekaterinoslav</em> 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. <em>Ekaterinoslav</em> is as beautiful a celebration of life--and lament for death--as you would expect from one of the world's foremost storytellers."--<strong>J. Patrick Lewis</strong>, U.S. Children's Poet Laureate (2011-2013) <p/>"When death, 'that old interrupter, ' claims <strong>Jane Yolen</strong>'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."--<strong>Lesléa Newman</strong>, author of <em>October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard</em> <p/>"<strong>Jane Yolen</strong>'s new work, <em>Ekaterinoslav</em>, 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.'"--<strong>Sylvia M. Vardell, Ph.D.</strong>, author of <em>Poetry Aloud Here</em> and <em>The Poetry Teacher's Book of Lists</em> <p/><strong>Jane Yolen</strong> 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.--<strong>Ray Olsen</strong>, <em>Booklist</em><br><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Jane Yolen: Jane Yolen, often called the Hans Christian Andersen of America, is the author of over 300 books, including OWL MOON, THE DEVIL'S ARITHMETIC, and HOW DO DINOSAURS SAY GOODNIGHT. The books range from rhymed picture books and baby board books, through middle grade fiction, poetry collections, nonfiction, and up to novels and story collections for young adults and adults, and two books of adult poetry. <p/>Her books and stories have won an assortment of awards--two Nebulas, a World Fantasy Award, a Caldecott, the Golden Kite Award, three Mythopoetic awards, two Christopher Medals, a nomination for the National Book Award, and the Jewish Book Award, among others. She is also the winner (for body of work) of the Kerlan Award, the World Fantasy Assn. Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Catholic Library's Regina Medal. Six colleges and universities have given her honorary doctorates. If you need to know more about her, visit her website at: www.janeyolen.com <p/>
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