Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, is recited in a time of deep sorrow.
She is the author of three previously published poetry books from Holy Cow! Press: Things to Say to a Dead Man: Poems at the End of a Marriage and After (2011)
Ekaterinoslav: One Family\'s Passage to America (2012); and The Bloody Tide: Poems about Politics and Power (2014)..
If you need to know more about her, visit her website at: www.janeyolen.com.
She lives in New England and in Scotland.
Her latest awards have been from the Jewish Book Council, the World Fantasy Association, a Massachusetts State Book Award, and a nomination by the USA for the International Astrid Lindgren Award.
Six colleges and universities have given her honorary doctorates for her body of work.
She writes a poem a day which she sends to over a thousand subscribers.
She has written musicals, and the lyrics for many bands.
She works across all genres--children\'s books and adult books: science fiction, fantasy, historical novels, storybooks, short stories, cookbooks, music books, nonfiction, anthologies, collections--even a novel in verse.
In March, 2021 her 400th book was published.
Kaddish is her 13th book of poems for adult readers. no Jew truly escapes/that time, those places, /unscarred, unscathed./I have no numbers on my arms, /But I have studied the charts, /the cities, the deaths, /till I know them by heart." About author(s): Jane Yolen , called the Hans Christian Andersen of America because of her work with fairy tales, is also a fine poet.
Her book concludes: "... "Knowing means remembrance," Yolen writes--as each poem becomes a memorial, a teaching, a warning for our and future generations.
Yolen\'s unflinching and stark record of the many death camp horrors serve as reminders of that era\'s brutality and the unrelenting suffering visited upon an innocent people.
The poems then morph into those about the Holocaust and after.
In her new gathering of sixty poems, award-winning author Jane Yolen gives us a feminist view of Biblical themes and personalities such as Eve, Sarah, David and Goliath.
In it, the sacredness of the Almighty One is affirmed.
Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, is recited in a time of deep sorrow
