Jehanne Dubrow is the author of nine poetry collections and three books of nonfiction, including, most recently, Exhibitions: Essays on Art & Atrocity. She is professor of creative writing at the University of North Texas.
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"Jehanne Dubrow's Civilians embraces war and its consequences from a different kind of front line than we're used to seeing in books about armed conflict. The spouses and families of warriors from both sides were slowly forced into their own quiet cells of trauma, mostly forgotten, until now. These poems are ruggedly beautiful and enduring." - Bruce Weigl "At its core, Civilians is a study of love and intimacy, separation and distance. Dubrow has written a collection that adds to the literature and provides us all a clear-eyed vision into the workings of the human heart." - Brian Turner "Drawing on myth-the poems invoke, for instance, Penelope and Andromache to make sense of contemporary war-Dubrow probes, with urgent and stunning imagery, how wars invade the domestic spaces of military spouses and, as one speaker puts it, that fragile 'little nation / of our marriage.' This is a brilliant, unforgettable book from one of today's most important American poets." - Hugh Martin