Civilians : poems / Jehanne Dubrow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dubrow, Jehanne, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military spouses--Poetry.

Military spouses.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

ix, 67 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"The final collection in Jehanne Dubrow's groundbreaking trilogy about the experience of being a modern military spouse, Civilians examines an important moment of transformation in a military marriage: the shift from active-duty service into civilian life. After twenty years in the U.S. Navy, Dubrow's husband came to the end of his career as an officer. The collection addresses what it means when someone who has been trained for conflict returns to the status of noncombatant. Set amid America's seemingly endless wars, Dubrow's poems address pressing questions about the process of transitioning to life as a civilian: What happens to the sailor removed from a world of uniforms and uniformity? How is his language transformed? His geography? And what happens to the spouse, 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? Civilians is a book both shadowed by and in conversation with the classics, including Ovid's Metamorphoses, Homer's The Odyssey, Euripides's The Trojan Women, and Sophocles's Philoctetes. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Other Format:

Online version: Dubrow, Jehanne. Civilians

ISBN:

9780807183724

0807183725

OCLC:

1449678756