The Arranged Marriage: Poems

by Jehanne Dubrow

Overview

With her characteristic music and precision, Dubrow’s prose poems delve unflinchingly into a mother’s story of trauma and captivity. The poet proves that truth telling and vision can give meaning to the gravest situations, allowing women to create a future on their own terms.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826355546
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	03/01/2015
Series:	Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	72
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Jehanne Dubrow is the author of four previous poetry collections, including Stateside and Red Army Red. She is the director of the Rose O’Neill Literary House and is an associate professor of English at Washington College.

Editorial Reviews

"[A] powerful new volume of poetry . . . that exquisitely addresses the nuances of survival, adaptation, and exile."—The Jewish Daily Forward

"Using prose blocks, Dubrow employs poetic phrasing and distillation as well as the freedom of traditional narrative to interpret her mother's life, but the striking work resonates far beyond the specifics of her project, extending into the common experiences of fear and trauma."—Pasatiempo

"Bold writing with visionary power and strong language. . . . I couldn't stop reading it."—Washington Independent Review of Books

"Call it the speculative, or the subjunctive, or the surreal. You'll call it stunning and surprising, too. Dubrow has transformed language into paint, film, and shutter. She has stretched back in time to the beginning before the beginning, out in range to the landscape beyond the frame. Her book is a map. Her atlas is a canvas. Her history is a photograph. Put another way, her project is part genealogy, part inheritance, and all art of the highest order."—The Rumpus

"Jehanne Dubrow in her fifth book of poems tells us a story so compelling that we put down our tasks and turn to her voice."—Hilda Raz, author of All Odd and Splendid

"We witness in these pages raw violence of marriages arranged, marriages broken. We feel the knife blade, recognize as our own every wounded body."—Peggy Shumaker, author of Gnawed Bones

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