{"title":"Jehanne Dubrow","description":"Jehanne Dubrow is a distinguished research professor and a professor of creative writing at the University of North Texas. She is the author of ten poetry collections; three books of nonfiction, including Taste: A Book of Small Bites (Columbia, 2022); and a craft book, The Wounded Line: A Guide to Writing Poems of Trauma (2025).","products":[{"product_id":"frivolity-a-defense-paperback","title":"Frivolity: A Defense - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy must everything be so important--so dour and solemn, so grim and austere? How about a feather boa, some frilly lace, and a bright splash of pink? In \u003ci\u003eFrivolity\u003c\/i\u003e, Jehanne Dubrow stands up for the seemingly shallow and trifling, calling for a reconsideration of what we find worthy and what we dismiss. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book is a provocation. It offers a defense of the pursuits, objects, and people denigrated as frivolous, asking why we so readily scorn them and why, in particular, the label is so often tied to femininity and queerness. Its 101 sections move lightly across literature, art, and popular culture, from Susan Sontag, Sei Shōnagon, Jane Austen, and Mozart to Barbie, Nora Ephron rom-coms, exclamation points, and Dubrow's own \"Year of Perfect Skin.\" Written in a lyrical style, this book takes both an intimate and a rigorous approach to thinking about the frivolous, blending personal essay with scholarship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor Dubrow, frivolity is a way of affirming the importance of joy and silliness. And don't we need a little more of both these things in an era made all too serious by autocracy and terror?","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376641409247,"sku":"9780231216159","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/2JJv4tyvs_9780231216159.webp?v=1789218235"},{"product_id":"civilians-poems-paperback","title":"Civilians: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe final volume in Jehanne Dubrow's groundbreaking trilogy about the experience of being a modern military spouse, \u003ci\u003eCivilians\u003c\/i\u003e examines a significant moment of transformation in a military marriage: the shift from active-duty service to civilian life. After twenty years in the U.S. Navy, Dubrow's husband came to the end of his tenure as an officer. \u003ci\u003eCivilians \u003c\/i\u003eaddresses what it means when someone who has been trained for war returns from the confining, restrictive space of a naval vessel. Set amid America's seemingly endless conflicts, Dubrow's poems confront pressing questions about the process of transitioning to a new reality as a noncombatant: What happens to the sailor removed from a world of uniforms and uniformity? How is his language changed? His geography? And what happens to a wife once physical and emotional distances are erased and she is reunited with her husband, a man made strange and foreign by his contact with war? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eCivilians \u003c\/i\u003eis a book both shadowed by and in conversation with the classics, including Ovid's \u003ci\u003eMetamorphoses, \u003c\/i\u003eHomer's \u003ci\u003eOdyssey, \u003c\/i\u003eEuripides's\u003ci\u003e The Trojan Women, \u003c\/i\u003e and Sophocles's \u003ci\u003ePhiloctetes\u003c\/i\u003e. Blending formal and free verse, with materials ranging from the historical to the personal, Dubrow offers readers a candid look at the experience of watching a loved one adjust to homelife after a career of military service.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378548965599,"sku":"9780807183724","price":22.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/KemCKxc5oh9780807183724.webp?v=1789258026"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/jehanne-dubrow.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}