{"product_id":"eugene-ostashevsky-alphabet-soup-1","title":"Eugene Ostashevsky, Alphabet Soup","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlphabet Soup\u003c\/em\u003e collects the sayings of two multilingual girls as written down by their poet father Eugene Ostashevsky. As their Turkish-German-Russian-American family moves from New York to Berlin, the girls communicate in a witty and colorful language of their own, effortlessly mixing words of different origin. Does who we are determine the way we speak — or is it the other way around? \u003cem\u003eAlphabet Soup \u003c\/em\u003eshows us the girls’ language as it changes, letting us witness their metamorphoses from toddlers to teenagers. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eEugene Ostashevsky was born in Leningrad, grew up in New York, and now commutes between New York and Berlin. His latest poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eThe Feeling Sonnets\u003c\/em\u003e (Carcanet and NYRB Poets, 2022), explores the affects of living in a non-native language on emotions, parenting, and identity. An earlier book, \u003cem\u003eThe Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi\u003c\/em\u003e (NYRB Poets, 2017), examines the challenges of communication between pirates and parrots.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eEugene runs \u003cem\u003esdvig series\u003c\/em\u003e on translingual avant-garde writing for Rab-Rab Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlphabet Soup\u003c\/em\u003e is published in collaboration with Tamizdat Project from New York City, and is designed by ELAS.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rab-Rab Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58014855659855,"sku":"PK2466","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0774\/3068\/6031\/files\/PKB_4645.jpg?v=1782123961","url":"https:\/\/publicknowledgebooks.com\/products\/eugene-ostashevsky-alphabet-soup-1","provider":"Public Knowledge","version":"1.0","type":"link"}