Small Things Left Behind.

Front cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- lucky stars -- let my people go -- release -- end of my life in a box -- not scared -- baggage -- last visit at my parents' home -- letters -- crossing the line -- pain -- airborne -- August 5th 1979 -- torn. gone. -- crowds -- déjà 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 don't remember you -- my cat Kilka -- unravelling -- recurring dream -- choice -- homesickness snapshot -- linden honey -- coat -- I don'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 I've been sitting -- an outsider -- passing -- amnesia -- talking to an old photo album -- acknowledgements -- about the author -- Other books from University of Alberta Press.

Lyric-narrative poetry of a Russian-Jewish refugee's flight to Canada during the Cold War.

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