Author is poet who often discusses war, but this work is not focused on it.

From back cover
"Composed in the voice of the imaginary Yiddish poet Ida, these poems are subtle, musically complex, and frequently startling in their immediacy, violence, and grace. Steeped in Jewish and Polish history, they're set in the invented town of AlwaysWinter, a lush, strange, and frequently harrowing place where even the most mundane objects seem imued with sexuality, pain, and danger. This is a wonderful poetic sequence and, more than a mere vetnriloquist, Dubrow is a poet of enormous skill and vision

From www.washingtonwriters.org/authors/dubrow.shtml

These are feverish poems indeed, ardent to the point of hallucination, burning between the sexuality of the sacred and the need to write: "to find the slingshot word...turning/ pencils into nettle-points," and to be the writing, incantatory as a curse, ancient as the lost world of Yiddish Poland, modern or timeless as "the fullness that begins with emptiness," the "bitterness that sticks/ like honey on the tongue." Dubrow's poetry is never less than astonishing. - Alicia Ostriker In these precise and soulful meditations, Dubrow combs through lost, illuminated fields of lyrical imagery for what's been "left for gleaners to find," and in doing so, restores some part of what we cannot live without. - Dorianne Laux

From amazon
"Jehanne Dubrow is the author of five poetry collections, including most recently The Arranged Marriage (University of New Mexico Press, 2015), Red Army Red (Northwestern, 2012) and Stateside (Northwestern, 2010). Her second book, From the Fever-World, won the Washington Writers’ Poetry Competition (2009), and her first, The Hardship Post (2009), won the Three Candles Press Open Book Award and was recently re-released in a new edition by Sundress Publications (2013). She co-edited The Book of Scented Things: 100 Contemporary Poems About Perfume (Literary House Press, 2014).

Her poetry, creative nonfiction, and book reviews have appeared in Southern Review, The New Republic, Poetry, The Hudson Review, The New England Review, as well as on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. She earned a B.A. in the “Great Books” from St. John’s College, an MFA from the University of Maryland, and a PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has been a recipient of the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award, the Towson University Prize for Literature, an Individual Artist’s Award from the Maryland State Arts Council, fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and a Sosland Foundation Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies."

The daughter of American diplomats, Dubrow was born in Italy and grew up in Yugoslavia, Zaire, Poland, Belgium, Austria, and the United States. She is the Director of the Rose O’Neill Literary House and an Associate Professor of creative writing at Washington College. She serves as the Series Editor of the Literary House Press and is the Founder and Editor of Cherry Tree: A National Literary Journal @ Washington College.