small things left behind
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small things left behind

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small things left behind

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"Freedom is something my father has never known. How do I explain freedom to the ones born bent?" -from "Not Scared" Ella Zeltserman's poetry cuts both ways. The story of her flight from the USSR in 1979-of the young family she brought to Edmonton and the older one she left behind-does "explain freedom to the ones born bent, " but it also explains oppression to the ones born free. Deftly modulating language, imagery, and events of past and present, comfort and tyranny, atrocity and family, home and war, Leningrad and Edmonton, she touches readers emotionally, drawing them into the journey. This authentic account of Russian-Jewish immigration to Canada during the Cold War will speak to all who have left their country or who moved far away from home.

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Publisher
The University of Alberta Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9781772120127
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Canadian Poetry
Index
Literature
contents
lucky stars
let my people go
release
end of my life in a box
not scared
baggage
last visit at my parentsā€™ home
letters
crossing the line
pain
airborne
August 5th 1979
torn. gone.
crowds
dƩjƠ vu
watermelon
emigration
Ostia beach study with three lives one month after escape
I wake up in the middle of night
you will be strangers in a strange land
perekati-pole
Edmonton founded 1980
blue night
they still censor my life
the finger
prairie apples
small things left behind
rational foot forward
discoveries
connections
picking apples
no answer to the questions not asked
Mayday flowers
old dress
gold coins
you are my mother-in-law
my father tells me a story
wake-up call
perceptions
reflections
hedgehog and turtle in Soviet Union
silence
old photographs
watching a military parade in the Soviet Union
every May 9th of my childhood
war harvest
bog cranberries best picked at the first frost
Grandma, I donā€™t remember you
my cat Kilka
unravelling
recurring dream
choice
homesickness snapshot
linden honey
coat
I donā€™t put sugar in my tea
mirage
reunion
collapse
seta naturale is the natural silk
nebulous
striped cake
innocents in the Soviet Union
affliction
there is an empty space where Iā€™ve been sitting
an outsider
passing
amnesia
talking to an old photo album
acknowledgements
lucky stars
I was born at the right time
in the history of the Soviet Union.
I missed being among millions
dead in Gulag camps.
I missed being thrown out
of cattle cars into the Siberian snow
in the summer dress
I wore on the day of my arrest.
I missed being shot...

Table of contents

  1. cover
  2. title page
  3. copyright page
  4. dedication
  5. contents
  6. lucky stars
  7. let my people go
  8. release
  9. end of my life in a box
  10. not scared
  11. baggage
  12. last visit at my parentsā€™ home
  13. letters
  14. crossing the line
  15. pain
  16. airborne
  17. August 5th 1979
  18. torn. gone.
  19. crowds
  20. dƩjƠ vu
  21. watermelon
  22. emigration
  23. Ostia beach study with three lives one month after escape
  24. I wake up in the middle of night
  25. you will be strangers in a strange land
  26. perekati-pole
  27. Edmonton founded 1980
  28. blue night
  29. they still censor my life
  30. the finger
  31. prairie apples
  32. small things left behind
  33. rational foot forward
  34. discoveries
  35. connections
  36. picking apples
  37. no answer to the questions not asked
  38. Mayday flowers
  39. old dress
  40. gold coins
  41. you are my mother-in-law
  42. my father tells me a story
  43. wake-up call
  44. perceptions
  45. reflections
  46. hedgehog and turtle in Soviet Union
  47. silence
  48. old photographs
  49. watching a military parade in the Soviet Union
  50. every May 9th of my childhood
  51. war harvest
  52. bog cranberries best picked at the first frost
  53. Grandma, I donā€™t remember you
  54. my cat Kilka
  55. unravelling
  56. recurring dream
  57. choice
  58. homesickness snapshot
  59. linden honey
  60. coat
  61. I donā€™t put sugar in my tea
  62. mirage
  63. reunion
  64. collapse
  65. seta naturale is the natural silk
  66. nebulous
  67. striped cake
  68. innocents in the Soviet Union
  69. affliction
  70. there is an empty space where Iā€™ve been sitting
  71. an outsider
  72. passing
  73. amnesia
  74. talking to an old photo album
  75. acknowledgements
  76. about the author
  77. Other Titles from The University of Alberta Press