AGAINST WAR MOVIES
I see my husband shooting in Platoon,
and there he is again in M*A*S*H, (how weird
to hear him talk like Hawkeye Pierce), and soon
I spot him everywhere, his body smeared
with mud, his face bloodied. He's now the star
of every ship blockade and battle scene--
The Fighting 69th, A Bridge Too Far,
Three Kings, Das Boot, and Stalag 17.
In Stalingrad he's killed, and then
?he's killed in Midway and a Few Good Men.
He's burned or gassed or shot between the eyes
or shoots himself when he comes home again.
Each movie is a training exercise,
a scenario for how my husband dies
| LoC Classification |
PS3604.U276 .S73 2010 |
| LoC Control Number |
2009043327 |
| Dewey |
811.6 |
| Nationality |
American |
| No. of Pages |
72 |
| Height x Width |
8.7
inch |
| First Edition |
Yes |
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Jehanne Dubrow was born in Italy and grew up in Poland, Yugoslavia, Zaire, Belgium, Austria, and the United States. She earned a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and an MFA from the University of Maryland.
From book jacket. ..."Although the poems in Stateside are concerned with a military husband's deployment, Jehanne Dubrow's riveting collection is driven more by intellectual curiosity and emotional exploration than by any overt political agenda. The speaker in these poems attempts to understand her own life through the long history of military wives left to wait and wonder, invoking Penelope's plight in The Odyssey as a model but also as a source of mystery. These poems are dazzling in their use of form, their sensual imagery, and their learnedness, possessing a level of subtlety and control rarely found in the work of a young poet. Dubrow is fearless in her contemplation of the far-reaching effects of war but even more so in her excavation of a marriage under duress."
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
