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From the Fever-World
Here is language given to an unrecorded life, a fiery spirit released through utterance of the most intimate feelings of an imagined Old World woman, one confined to a body used and defined by others. In an act of historical reclamation and generosity, Jehanne Dubrow breaks the ancestral silence of female subjectivity radically constrained by tradition; the result is a poetry of an almost incandescent intensity, a kind of fever dream in a world forever winter. - Eleanor Wilner These are feverish poems indeed, ardent to the point of hallucination, burning between the sexuality of the sacred and the need to write: "to find the slingshot word...turning/ pencils into nettle-points," and to be the writing, incantatory as a curse, ancient as the lost world of Yiddish Poland, modern or timeless as "the fullness that begins with emptiness," the "bitterness that sticks/ like honey on the tongue." Dubrow's poetry is never less than astonishing. - Alicia Ostriker In these precise and soulful meditations, Dubrow combs through lost, illuminated fields of lyrical imagery for what's been "left for gleaners to find," and in doing so, restores some part of what we cannot live without. - Dorianne Laux BIO: Jehanne Dubrow's work has appeared in Poetry, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, and Shenandoah. She is the author of a poetry collection, The Hardship Post, and a chapbook, The Promised Bride. Her third book, Stateside, will be released by Northwestern University Press in 2010. She is an assistant professor in creative writing and literature at Washington College, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
- GenresPoetry
68 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2009
About the author
Jehanne Dubrow
22 books37 followersJehanne Dubrow is the author of nine books of poetry, including most recently, Wild Kingdom (Louisiana State University Press, 2021) and a book of creative nonfiction, throughsmoke: an essay in notes (New Rivers Press, 2019). Her previous poetry collections are American Samizdat, Dots & Dashes, The Arranged Marriage, Red Army Red, Stateside, From the Fever-World, and The Hardship Post. She has co-edited two anthologies, The Book of Scented Things: 100 Contemporary Poems about Perfume and Still Life with Poem: Contemporary Natures Mortes in Verse.
Jehanne's poems, essays, and book reviews have appeared in numerous literary journals, including Poetry, Southern Review, Pleiades, Colorado Review, and The New England Review. Her work has been featured by American Life in Poetry, The New York Times Magazine, The Slowdown, Fresh Air, The Academy of American Poets, as well as on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. She is the founding editor of the literary journal, Cherry Tree.
Jehanne earned a B.A. in the "Great Books" from St. John's College, an MFA in poetry from the University of Maryland, and a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In her free time, she is currently earning another MFA—this time in creative nonfiction—from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
She has been a recipient of the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry from Beloit Poetry Journal, the Crab Orchard Series Open Competition Award, the Diode Editions Book Contest, the Editors' Prize in Prose from Bat City Review, the Firecracker Award in Prose from CLMP, the Mississippi Review Prize in Poetry, the Towson University Prize for Literature, an Individual Artist's Award from the Maryland State Arts Council, a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship and a Howard Nemerov from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and a Sosland Foundation Fellowship from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
The daughter of American diplomats, Jehanne was born in Vicenza, Italy and grew up in Yugoslavia, Zaire, Poland, Belgium, Austria, and the United States. She lives in Denton with her two Bedlington Terriers, Lola and Bandit, and with her husband, Jeremy, who recently retired from a 20-year career in the U.S. Navy. Jehanne is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Texas.
Jehanne's poems, essays, and book reviews have appeared in numerous literary journals, including Poetry, Southern Review, Pleiades, Colorado Review, and The New England Review. Her work has been featured by American Life in Poetry, The New York Times Magazine, The Slowdown, Fresh Air, The Academy of American Poets, as well as on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. She is the founding editor of the literary journal, Cherry Tree.
Jehanne earned a B.A. in the "Great Books" from St. John's College, an MFA in poetry from the University of Maryland, and a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In her free time, she is currently earning another MFA—this time in creative nonfiction—from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
She has been a recipient of the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry from Beloit Poetry Journal, the Crab Orchard Series Open Competition Award, the Diode Editions Book Contest, the Editors' Prize in Prose from Bat City Review, the Firecracker Award in Prose from CLMP, the Mississippi Review Prize in Poetry, the Towson University Prize for Literature, an Individual Artist's Award from the Maryland State Arts Council, a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship and a Howard Nemerov from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and a Sosland Foundation Fellowship from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
The daughter of American diplomats, Jehanne was born in Vicenza, Italy and grew up in Yugoslavia, Zaire, Poland, Belgium, Austria, and the United States. She lives in Denton with her two Bedlington Terriers, Lola and Bandit, and with her husband, Jeremy, who recently retired from a 20-year career in the U.S. Navy. Jehanne is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Texas.
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October 13, 2009
Two poetry books in one year! How does she do it? Well, you could waste time thinking about the answer to that question, or you could read my review of Jehanne Dubrow's From the Fever World found at Poets' Quarterly, a brand spanking new online journal dedicated to poetry reviews. Take a look here:
http://www.poetsquarterly.com/
And then go back and read her first book, The Hardship Post.
http://www.poetsquarterly.com/
And then go back and read her first book, The Hardship Post.
December 25, 2013
I swoon over all of Dubrow's poems with various versions. So beautiful to see how subtle changes create an entirely new poem that is linked back to the original; it makes me want to teach this book to poetry students. The voice and world of Ida is vivid and dark. Ida speaks for all women in both the old world and today's. "Start with blessing and end/ with melodies that don't endure."
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