![]() I think I was always meant to write this collection. The stories in The Arranged Marriage are narratives my mother has told me since I was a very little girl. ![]() I use narrow prose poems that resemble newspaper columns and that employ a detached voice, an attempt at reportage to speak about trauma and violence. The Arranged Marriage is a project book because its poems emerged out of a shared process and subject matter I spent two years interviewing my mother, focusing on three different stories: an exiled, Jewish childhood in Latin America an incident of extreme emotional and physical violence and an arranged marriage in the aftermath of that violence. What do you think makes your book (or any book) a “project book”? Synopsis: A book-length sequence of prose poems about a mother’s experiences with different kinds of forced intimacy and closeness. The Arranged Marriage, University of New Mexico Press, 2015 She is the Director of the Rose O’Neill Literary House and an Associate Professor of creative writing at Washington College. ![]() ![]() Her work has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, The New England Review, and Prairie Schooner. ![]() JEHANNE DUBROW is the author of five poetry collections, including most recently The Arranged Marriage (U of New Mexico P, 2015), Red Army Red (Northwestern UP, 2012), and Stateside (Northwestern UP, 2010). ![]()
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