Jehanne Dubrow
Auteur van Stateside: Poems
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Jehanne Dubrow is the author of five poetry collections, including The Arranged Marriage, Red Army Red, and Stateside. Her poems, creative nonfiction, and book reviews have appeared in the Southern Review, New York Times Magazine, and Hudson Review, among others. She is an associate professor at toon meer the University of North Texas. toon minder
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Admittedly there will be some frustrated people who grab their thesaurus and attack the creativity here as a cover-up for what they themselves lack. That is okay, it is probably hard being so petty all the time and needing to lash out. Forgive the child. Also ignore the entitled pompous child, they make little to no sense.
Dubrow weaves her look at taste through both personal recollections and various literary commentaries. This works very well for the most part as we go from Proust to beekeeping and on to the science of various tastes. There is also the social and cultural aspects which bring in interesting and sometimes disturbing pieces of history.
The writing is good, fluctuating between poetic and expository depending on the topic at hand. Like so many such books the value is less in whether what is written is "new" or already common knowledge and more about how these things are positioned in relation to each other. If one can't appreciate new perspectives only new information, well, too bad, maybe they will evolve at some point. For the rest of us, we can see our own relationship with taste from different perspectives thanks to this type of work.
Highly recommended for those readers who enjoy looking at common ideas and processes through a lens that is personal at the same time that it looks at the bigger picture. Those who think themselves clever through posturing will likely feel only jealousy and lash out. Again, ignore them, they are far too petty to bother with.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley.… (meer)