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Parallel Press releases 'Border Crossings' by Heather Dubrow

Posted 2/16/2001

Cover of Border CrossingsMADISON, Wis.-- Poet Heather Dubrow explores difficult life experiences, including the loss of parents, divorce, medical crisis, accident, and injury in the eleventh chapbook of the Parallel Press, Border Crossings. This 12-piece collection explores some of life's most difficult experiences, or "border crossings."

Border Crossings is an emotion-filled collection that delves into some of Dubrow's personal experiences. She uses both traditional and free-verse forms in her poems.

A chapbook is a small-format literary work, usually of poetry or essays. The chapbooks are published by the Parallel Press, an imprint of the UW-Madison libraries.

Dubrow is also the author of a chapbook titled, Transformation and Repetition, a play called The Devil's Paintbrush, and she has published poems in The Journal of the American Medical Association, Southwest Review and Prarie Schooner. She is the Tighe-Evans Professor and John Bascom Professor in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Each Parallel Press chapbook is $10; annual subscriptions for six are $50. Titles may be ordered by writing:

The Parallel Press
372 Memorial Library
728 State St.
Madison, WI 53706

For information, see their Web site at http://parallelpress.library.wisc.edu, or phone (608) 262-2600. E-mail inquiries may be sent to kfrazier@library.wisc.edu.

Here's a sample poem from the latest chapbook:

West of the Metropolitan Museum

City spats splattering--hot markets, the bus
Driver's insult--blister even the thick skin
Of August pavements. Tar boils. A fuss
Reddens, bubbles, bursts. The familiar poison
From the cop's lips. And two
Nasal ladies, pruple with pefume, insist
That rude child took thier plae in line. Too
Teary to protest, she drops her Coke bottle--her list.
And so I retreat to the ivory of museums:
Two scholars sit, calm as dusk, on a screen,
Their lips are half open: a duet, it seems?
Pine needles and peonies, incised lines clean
As flutes. Wait--blossoms or blisters? A crack
Snakes from his lips. Needling words, poisoned black?

The Web page for the chapbook series of the Parallel Press is: http://parallelpress.library.wisc.edu/

 

 

 

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