Monument to Letter "Yo"

[Jules Levin]

At 10:30 AM 11/15/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Dear SEELANGers:
>
>It's not often that a Russian city puts up a monument to a letter in
>the alphabet, but Ulyanovsk has done just that.  See
>
>http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2001/10/29/003.html
>
This item reminds me of a 16-line poem published in Soglasie, a local (Los
Angeles) 1st wave emigre publication in the 50's, that I discovered as a
student (the editor was Yuriy Kanakov--former White artillery officer,
Turkic languages specialist (trained at a pre-revolutionary officer
school),  and curator of Invertebrate Paleontology at the LA Co. Museum
(where I met him as a HS junior scientist...).
The poem was a tribute to the letter jat'--full of 1st wave Weltschmerz and
nostalgia--not to mention irony.
I copied it out by hand, and have been searching my files for it ever
since.  When I find it--I'm sure I have it somewhere--I'll send it to SEELANGS.
Jules Levin

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