Dots & Dashes

Moving between the languages of love and war, Jehanne Dubrow’s latest book offers valuable testimony to the experiences of military wives. Frequently employing rhyme, meter, and traditional forms, these poems examine what it means to be both a military spouse and an academic, straddling two communities that speak in very different and often conflicting terms. As in the poet’s earlier collection, Stateside , the poems in Dots & Dashes are explicitly feminist, exploring the experiences of wome