Great Grandmother — SvetlanaSveta Around the WorldThe Widow’s Stories in Rhymes
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Golden Poet, 1990 · World of Poetry Anthology
Writer Lana Vashovsky · New York
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From the old country to New York courtrooms, Lana Vashovsky lived many chapters before poetry found her.
After forty, memory, faith, family, freedom, widowhood, and America began turning into rhymes that carry the warmth of a life fully lived.
The books by Lana Vashovsky bring together poems about everyday life, family history, and the moments that shaped her voice.
She taught in a vocational collegeThree books in rhyme, so farStudied law under the Brooklyn BridgeWalked into court beside new arrivalsThe poems began after forty
BOOKS BY LANA VASHOVSKY
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Svetlana—TheWidow’sStoriesinRhymes
Widowhood, memory, family, and daily life are gathered into rhymes that speak with warmth, honesty, and courage.
In Svetlana — The Widow’s Stories in Rhymes, Lana Vashovsky gives later life a voice shaped by loss, love, laughter, and survival.
Inside:
Stories shaped by loss, love, and laughter
A woman’s voice after silence, change, and survival
Family memories, New York moments, and wisdom from later life
Sveta Around the World by Lana Vashovsky brings together forty-four Russian poems written in New York.
The book carries her gratitude for freedom, family, faith, America, and the immigrant journey that makes it one of her most personal works.
From the contents:
The Gift of Freedom · My First Poem
Thank You, America! · A Walk Through Manhattan
Shabbat Is Our Holiday · Winter at Rockefeller Center
Always Alive · Don’t Stop My Grandmother Becoming a Ballerina
The Great Grandmother Svetlana poetry book is a family story written for the next generation, filled with memory, love, immigration, and the voice of a great-grandmother.
It reflects the same warmth that places Lana Vashovsky’s work among the best poetry books about immigrant life.
Inside:
A father waiting after school with an umbrella
A teacher’s life before America
Brooklyn courtrooms and newly arrived families
The oath, the children, and the great-grandchildren
Author Lana Vashovsky lived many lives before poetry became her voice.
She taught in a vocational college, came to America, studied law in New York, took the oath of citizenship, and stood beside newly arrived families in Brooklyn courtrooms when they needed guidance most.
After forty, the poems began. Freedom, family, faith, widowhood, Shabbat candles, New York streets, her father’s memory, and the quiet strength of everyday life all found their place in rhyme.
With more than 35 years of writing, Lana Vashovsky turns personal history into words that feel warm, honest, and deeply human.
“Freedom, thank you for finding me. Because of you, I began to write.”
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FAQs
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Want a signed copy?
Write to the publisher — letters reach Lana, and she answers. Readings can be arranged in New York.
Lana Vashovsky’s books read like rhyming memoir poetry about life because they turn real memories, family history, faith, widowhood, and everyday moments into personal poems.
Her work is built from lived experience, not imagined distance.
Yes. Sveta Around the World can be read as a memoir in verse about immigration because it follows Lana Vashovsky’s gratitude for freedom,
her life in New York, her oath of citizenship, and her reflections on America, family, and faith.
Each book carries part of her life story written in rhyme, but SVETLANA — The Widows stories in rhymes! gives the broadest view of her later life.
It includes family memories, widowhood, New York moments, dancing, faith, and reflections after loss.
The widow stories written in rhyme focus on Lana Vashovsky’s life after the loss of her husband Sam. They include grief, loneliness, family, grandchildren,
holidays, dancing, faith, humor, and the strength to keep writing.
Yes. Lana Vashovsky’s books are filled with rhyming poems about life experiences, including immigration, marriage, motherhood, widowhood,
citizenship, Shabbat, family gatherings, New York streets, and memories from different stages of life.
Yes. Her work belongs among poetry books about immigrant experiences because it reflects the emotional journey of building a life in America while carrying
memories from the old country, family values, faith, language, and gratitude for freedom.
They are separate books, each with its own subject: a life set down for her family, forty-four poems written in New York, and the stories widows tell one another.
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Golden Poet 1990, an appearance in the World of Poetry Anthology, and citations and proclamations from New York officials for her work with newly arrived immigrants.
The first two are on Amazon — each section above links to its listing. The third is announced by letter; write to the publisher to be told first.
Yes. Write to the publisher and Lana will sign and inscribe a copy for you.
In New York, by arrangement through the publisher.
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