The Arranged Marriage, Jehanne Dubrow. University of New Mexico Press, 2015. 72 pp. $18.95, paperback.
The title of Jehanne Dubrow’s new book, The Arranged Marriage, is suggestive of the Old World: steamer trunks, shawls, handmade figurines, vegetables preserved at home in barrels. And, true to her title, Dubrow threads these and other antique images throughout this highly accomplished book of prose poems. But the poems’ primary concern—the book’s starting and ending points of reference, and the locus of Dubrow s most urgent writing—is a timeless one: a man forcing himself into a woman’s home to do violence.
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