The Arranged Marriage. Jehanne Dubrow. University of New Mexico Press, 2015.
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Jehanne Dubrow is the author of five poetry collections, including most recently The Arranged Marriage (U of New Mexico P, 2015), Red Army Red (Northwestern UP, 2012), and Stateside (Northwestern UP, 2010). Her work has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, The New England Review, and Prairie Schooner. She is the Director of the Rose O’Neill Literary House in Maryland and an Associate Professor of creative writing at Washington College.
Description: With her characteristic music and
precision, Dubrow delves 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.
Blurb: Here is a sequence of nuanced narratives, each anxiously circling arrangements of marriage, violence, and the shadows of history. Jehanne Dubrow has a storyteller’s gift for suggesting, with enviable economy of language, the complexities of our relationships with those we love and the inescapable past that surrounds us. Elegant, intimate, and unsettling, The Arranged Marriage is a terrific—an important—book. (Kevin Prufer)
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Wow, what a poem! Just enough detail, just enough mystery.
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