The Arranged Marriage: Poems (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series), by Jehanne Dubrow
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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.
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- Published on: 2015-03-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .20" w x 6.00" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 72 pages
The Arranged Marriage: Poems (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series), by Jehanne Dubrow Review "[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
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.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. like “The Handbag By S. Scott Whitaker From the Broadkill Review:Jehanne Dubrow’s The Arranged Marriage, from the University of New Mexico Press, expresses the violence of relationships, and the emotional and physical toll that such violence creates. Front and center are poems expressing how men vie for control of their women, and how the simplest domestic chores reveal the chaos within a one-sided marriage, within a relationship, and within us.The most striking poems in Marriage tell the story of how the poet’s mother was held hostage in a home invasion, and it is the diction of that encounter, of shock and violence, which permeates the entire volume. Whether Dubrow writes of a dog on the street or writes an ekphrasis response to a painting violence is inherent in the language. The consistency of her diction and her unified poetic vision elevate Marriage, and illustrate the violent tyranny of the patriarchy that for some women in the world is a very present danger.An arranged marriage is a dated concept, and many of the men in Dubrow’s book are old school patriarchs, men who want their wives to cook for them and lay with them whenever their desires are pricked. These are men who smell of cigars and whiskey, and prefer women to express their freedom in the kitchen; remnants of an older, crueler world. But Dubrow’s book isn’t only a feminist political argument, it is a collection that aims to tell the story of her mother, and her mother’s sufferings, and of the women who suffer similar fates. It doesn’t matter if Dubrow writes about a model of marriage that is out-dated in the West, the narratives within Marriage are important.The collection opens with “The Handbag” where the poet’s mother checks the weight of her purse which she hopes she will not have to use as a defensive weapon. “What the man doesn’t know is that the bag is full of borrowed books rigid at their spines. The man with a knife.” Many of the poems, like “The Handbag,” speak in staccato rhythm, as if fear has broken down the language of the victim, in this case her mother. What’s terrifying and skillful at the same time is that the man, the invader, is all men. Marriage is as much of a portrait of men as as it is women. Man, in Marriage, is father, husband, lover, antagonist, invader, robber, and rapist, and the roles blur into a figure of authority that looms large over the landscape of the poems. Dubrow isn’t man bashing here. These aren’t diatribes. These are poems that express the great woe of women who have had to endure suffering at the hands of men.What makes Marriage all the more complicated is the way in which the women, her mother, and the other “characters” react to the men in their lives. The third poem in the collection, “Makeshift Bandage,” the woman in the poem, presumably during the break-in, has bit her attacker on the hand, and is now bandaging him “where she bit him.” However “the towel won’t stay. She finds electric tape inside a kitchen drawer. The tearing sound it makes--nothing should tear the way the loop of tape uncircles from itself.” Stockholm syndrome, sure. But more likely the garden variety kind of toxic co-dependence that both men and women find themselves stuck within. Here the sound of the tape is sticky and unnerving, it is the sound of torn flesh being mended, but it is the visual image of the circle that either character cannot escape that wields the power in “Bandage.”It is that very circular nature that Dubrow plays with with regard to form. The collection is made up (almost) entirely of prose poems. They function like circles, or perhaps bruises, or scars. Fat blocks of black type that illustrate the starkness of many of the lives on display in Marriage.In the end, Marriage is a book about identity. In “The Blue Dress” where the speaker is tired of playing dolls and dress-up, and discovers by accident old photographs, evidence of past lives, of secret histories unknown to her. In the context of the book, these discoveries aren’t revelatory, or joyful, they are like finding a corpse, “a body dragged from a lake.”Dubrow’s poems about domestic life, childhood, and art, are not devoid of violence, in fact they reflect the pain expressed in the poems that are directly about the arranged marriage, and about the home invasion. However, there is hope.In “Story” the mother is working for the government transcribing narratives. Dubrow is masterfully unclear about what kind of narratives she transcribes. The women could be discussing World War Two, they could be discussing Central America. The women could be from anywhere, which is Dubrow’s point. Her mother translates another woman’s story, and in doing so relives her own, and also perhaps, puts the terrible event behind her. “The woman is telling a story--how many cigarette burns, that the camps were called HOUSES, the riverstone of her body. My mother asks, How many cigarette burns? and waits for the translation. This is the word for RIVER, this is the word for RAVISH.” Once again language is affected by the experienced violence, broken up in block prose poems. Later, in a moment of synthesis, her mother’s story becomes part of the woman’s story she is transcribing. “Twenty years ago, my mother was telling a story. She tries to hold the memory of that man, his knife, his hands, what he could have killed, each word a water glass, all of it water....” It is a moment that occurs in other poems in the volume, and one that occurs for the reader as well. This identification illustrates human nature at its most intimate, and most brave. When we try to understand another person in pain, how can we not be transformed by the experience?Arranged Marriage is beam of light shining in dark rooms. A beam of light made up of dark words, dark stories, dark secrets. The exigency of this work is Dubrow’s mother’s story, but Marriage transcends the singular narrative and becomes something else entirely. It is as if the poet is acting as a healer, expressing what has long been in the dark and left to fester. And by the end, Marriage has cleaned up and cleaned out the old rooms, and “there are no surprises. Nothing is crouched and waiting with a knife.”
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Telling comination of form and substance By Glynn Young What the reader immediately notices with “The Arranged Marriage” by Jehanne Dubrow is the form of the poems – each of the 54 poems is line-justified, suggesting a very tight control of the form. That virtually all of the poems relation to the poet’s mother, tied to this tight controlling form, serves to heighten and enhance the theme of an arranged marriage, including overtones of violence and abuse. Even something as seemingly innocent as a photograph of a child playing dress-up becomes something unsettling.My Mother, Age Five, Dressed asMata HariSome devil has turned her double agent.She’s dancer of the seven veils, highpriestess of the cha-cha-cha. Comehither, says the camera. Come kiss me,says the girl. And never mind thequestions—who linked the silver chainaround her waist? Who cuffed her arm?who shot the photograph? Call herbohemian. Call her the kind of troublethat tastes like chocolate, so sweet itdoesn’t matter what she stains. Call hera danger sharpest to herself. A femmefatale. A firing squad. She’s bugle beadsand red chiffon, unraveling. Costumemakes a courtesan. Costume makes thelittle mouth a place for poison, forswallowing a string of pearls.The poet is examining her mother’s life, and it is not a warm and embracing picture that she describes.Dubrow is the author of five previous collections of poetry: “The Promised Bride” (2007), “The Hardship Post” (2009), “From the Fever World” (2009), “Stateside” (2010), and “Red Army” Red (2012) (some of the titles suggest Dubrow’s upbringing by diplomatic parents assigned to several countries around the world). She’s received a number of poetry awards and recognitions. She’s an associate professor of creative writing at Washington College in Maryland, serves as director of the Rose O’Neill Literary House there, and is the founder and editor of the Cherry Tree literary journal. Her poems have been published in a number of literary and poetry journals.“The Arranged Marriage” is a fascinating collection, a telling combination of form and substance.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Extremely Well Written Memoir as Poetry By Diane H I read at washingtonpost.com recently that the percentage of adults that recalled reading one poem in the last year had dropped from 14% to 7% over the past ten years. I believe that reading this book could change the waning interest in poetry in this country.Each poem is written with such attention to detail and verbal economy that the exchanging of even one word would lessen it. The poems taken together are a memoir of both a woman who is a victim of history and her own circumstances and the daughter trying to decipher it later from her own childhood memories and family photographs.Overall, a sensitive depiction of a life lived as well as possible under the circumstances. A book written exceedingly well.I'm grateful I received this book in a Goodreads giveaway but that has not impacted my review.
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