[Jehanne Dubrow]

Hi, all. I’m pleased to announce the release of my second poetry collection, From the Fever-World, winner of the 2009 Washington Writer’s Publishing House Prize in Poetry. Athough the poems are written as lyrical "fragments," rather than as received or fixed forms, I hope that some 'spherians might still be interested in the book.

Here’s a little information about the collection:

"Composed in the voice of the imaginary Yiddish poet Ida, these poems are subtle, musically complex, and frequently startling in their immediacy, violence, and grace. Steeped in Jewish and Polish history, they’re set in the invented town of AlwaysWinter, a lush, strange, and frequently harrowing place where even the most mundane objects seem imbued with sexuality, pain, and danger. This is a wonderful poetic sequence and, more than a mere ventriloquist, Jehanne Dubrow is a poet of enormous skill and vision."
—Kevin Prufer

"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


The book can be ordered through www.washingtonwriters.org or www.amazon.com. If you have any questions about the collection or are interested in writing a review of the book, just drop me a line.

Best wishes,
Jehanne

www.jehannedubrow.com
http://gefiltereview.blogspot.com

[Quincy Lehr]

I've read it, and it's a good one. Everybody should buy it. A perfect gift for Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Festivus, or whatever the hell you people celebrate.

Quincy

[Kathleen Fitzpatrick]

Congratulations, Jehanne!

I went to the Washington Writers' Publishing House website to read about your new release, and saw the news about their First Annual Writers Ball this Saturday. That's local for Bill and me. Is anyone planning to attend? Sounds like fun.

Best,

Kathleen

[David Landrum]

Marvelous, Jehanne. I will get a copy and read with eagerness.

dwl

[Jehanne Dubrow]

Thanks, Kathleen! Well, I'll definitely be at the ball; I'm scheduled to work the book table and maybe do a little bartending too (singing for my supper). I would love if you two came by. It ought to be a pretty entertaining evening!

[W.F. Lantry]

Originally Posted by Jehanne Dubrow

Thanks, Kathleen! Well, I'll definitely be at the ball; I'm scheduled to work the book table and maybe do a little bartending too (singing for my supper). I would love if you two came by. It ought to be a pretty entertaining evening!

Jehanne,

But you're the *star*! Since when does the talent have to bartend?

So, do we show up in evening wear, or poet garb? One never knows in Adams Morgan...

Thanks,

Bill

[Mary Meriam]

Congratulations, Jehanne! There's a review of your book here. It sounds fascinating. Btw, I'm translating Fradel Shtok's sonnets from Yiddish.