Two
poetic voices are featured this week – one that uses physical form to
underscore the theme, and other that uses the metaphor of flowers to apply to
relationships and life.
What
the reader immediately notices with The Arranged Marriage by Jehanne Dubrow is
the form of the poems – each of the 54 poems is line-justified, suggesting a
very tight control of the form. That virtually all of the poems relation to the
poet’s mother, tied to this tight controlling form, serves to heighten and
enhance the theme of an arranged marriage, including overtones of violence and abuse.
Even something as seemingly innocent as a photograph of a child playing
dress-up becomes something unsettling.
To continue
reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak
Poetry.
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