"There's a tensile strength of line here-predominantly
pentameter-that underscores the ease of the poetic idiom: just as
the heartfelt yet disciplined feeling-life of the content
underwrites this collection's larger themes of Judaism and its
ancient traditions. The Hardship Post has a good deal on its mind
as well as the load in its heart. Polish history and heritage may
be one personal focus, but displacement and identity are the
greater subjects. First books don't usually take on the world at
this level of seriousness and skill." -Stanley Plumly "I admire
Jehanne Dubrow's poems not only for the poise and beauty of her
lines, but also for the way she grapples with big subjects:
inheritance and home, the cultural and the personal. A bearer of
tradition, she also knows what it's like to lose herself in
modernity. 'I don't belong where bodies separate / from minds like
sand trying to leave behind / the sea.' Poems become strands of
continuity stretched almost to breaking by mobility. Dubrow seems
to have lived everywhere-and that is precisely where The Hardship
Post should be read." -David Mason "At the place where the
cruelties of history and those of story intersect, Jehanne Dubrow
has staked a claim. These are poems of emotional intensity under
formal control. An impressive first collection." -Linda Pastan
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