“With Dots & Dashes, Jehanne Dubrow gives us a panoramic view of the landscape of marriage within the structure and confines of military life. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. 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. 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. Used by permission of the poet.Moving between the languages of love and war, Jehanne Dubrow’s latest book offers valuable testimony to the experiences of military wives. "The Long Deployment," by Jehanne Dubrow, from DOTS & DASHES by Jehanne Dubrow, copyright © 2017 Southern Illinois University Press. He was bitter incense paired with something sweet. Until he starts to fade, made incomplete,įor weeks, I breathed his body in the sheet. With each deployment I come become an aesthete
There’s bitter incense paired with something sweet.
Of bitter incense paired with something sweet.įor weeks, I breathe his body in the sheet-Ĭrushed pepper-although perhaps discreet, There’s bitter incense paired with something sweet,įor weeks, I breathe his body. For weeks, I breathe his body in the sheet
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