The Bloody Tide by Jane Yolen5/23/2023 For them I've created, recreated really, a lifetime, a country, a shtetl, a home. I have crafted these short lines for the ones who come after, my children's children. I have molded these words to reinvent moment and memory. I have written these poems as resurrection. Until she comes to understand with the words of the final poem, "Rebirth" As she says in the poem "Round Frame":Īll 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. 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. Here, through these brilliant poems, she pieces together a history of her family. Her father, only seven at the time, grew up wholly American and never spoke to her of the family's passage. 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.
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