The New York Foundation of the Arts, the University of Arizona Poetry Center, the They are the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Their book of lyric personal essays, I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well, won the 2016 Cleveland State University Poetry Center Essay Collection Award, judgedīy Chris Kraus. Recent poems and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Georgia Review, A Public Space, New England Review, Bennington Review, and in Best American Poetry 2012. In this timely collection, Dubrow offers the hope that if we can break apart our preconceptions and stereotypes, we can find what connects all of us.James Allen Hall’s first book of poems, Now You’re the Enemy, won awards from the Lambda Literary Foundation, the Texas Institute of Letters,Īnd the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Their second book of poems, Romantic Comedy, was chosen for the Levis Reading Prize by Diane Seuss and will be published by Four Navigating the rough seas of marriage alongside questions about how civilians and those in the military can learn to communicate with one another, Dubrow argues for compassion and empathy on both sides. Dubrow catalogs the domestic life of a military spouse, illustrating what it is like to live in a tightly constructed world of rules and regulations, ceremony and tradition, where "every sacrifice already / knows its place." Looking to Sappho and Emily Dickinson, the poet considers how the act of writing allows her autonomy and agency rarely granted to military spouses, even in the twenty-first century. But, while Stateside looked to masculine stories of war, Dots & Dashes incorporates the views and voices of female poets who have written about combat. Frequently employing rhyme, meter, and traditional forms, these poems examine what it means to be both a military spouse and an academic, straddling two communities that speak in very different and often conflicting terms.Īs in the poet's earlier collection, Stateside, the poems in Dots & Dashes are explicitly feminist, exploring the experiences of women whose husbands are deployed. Moving between the languages of love and war, Jehanne Dubrow's latest book offers valuable testimony to the experiences of military wives.
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