The language of longing that’s so straightforward early in a relationship grows layered, later, with the complicated syntax of separation. As the wife of a Naval officer, she knows that a spouse’s deployments get harder rather than easier on the ones left behind. Not since Penelope waited for Odysseus have these wives’ internal lives received such close and unsentimental examination.ĭubrow’s newest collection, Dots & Dashes, returns to our generation’s Forever War-because, after all, it’s still going on. Stateside’s nuanced and knotty answers to questions that most people wonder about but don’t dare ask ( Is she faithful? Is he? Does she worry he’ll die? Has war changed them?) put military marriages on the literary map. It’s gripping reading-evocative, personal, relevant, and sometimes even very funny–from a corner of the country that has always been silent about its struggles, as military spouses have been. She writes from the perspective of a wife whose husband is preparing to leave for combat and is then deployed for an extended period of time. Jehanne Dubrow’s fourth book of poems, Stateside(2010 ), reads like an urgent telegram from the front lines of a wartime marriage: concise, constructed, and compelling. By Alison Buckholtz (author, Navy spouse)
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