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Review: MAYHEM: THREE LIVES OF A WOMAN by Elizabeth Harris
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Review: MAYHEM: THREE LIVES OF A WOMAN by Elizabeth Harris

Mayhem: Three Lives of a Woman Elizabeth Harris Gival Press, October 2015 140 pp, $20 Pre-order here In the opening scene of this exquisite first novel by prizewinning short fiction writer Elizabeth Harris, a young farm wife in a black cloche hat and rummage sale dress climbs out of a 1920s Essex and up the…

“Little, safe boxes that contain trauma and violence”: An Interview with Jehanne Dubrow
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“Little, safe boxes that contain trauma and violence”: An Interview with Jehanne Dubrow

Jehanne Dubrow’s latest collection of poems, The Arranged Marriage, tells a difficult and moving story about the poet’s mother and her early life. The narrative gradually comes into focus for the reader through a sequence of beautiful, haunting prose poems—narrow blocks of words the poet likens to “newspaper columns” that convey her “poetic reportage.” Jehanne…