The Depression

"Apples of the Earth is a marvelous first collection. In Elegant, luminous language, Elenbogen evokes the places and people she loves and grieves over. Her leaps of imagination are startling: in one deft instant, she can connect the common-place objects to motions of the spirit and the heart. Her tone is everywhere sure and clear, the voice of a born poet." -Lynne Sharon Schwartz*

An introduction to Patrick’s autobiography. This is Part I. Recollections from growing up in an Irish family Queens during the Depression.