Wounded Line

Jehanne Dubrow is the author of ten poetry collections and three books of creative nonfiction, including Exhibitions: Essays on Art and Atrocity (UNM Press). She is a professor of creative writing and a Distinguished Research Professor at the University of North Texas.

“I love how this book guides without being imposing, how it opens the door without overwhelming, how it focuses on craft via love for craft. Here is a book that can be a friend, a book that you can take on the journey with you and then share with someone in your life who, too, will benefit from such a journey. It is the kind of text well worth sharing, for here craft and urgency of being come hand in hand. A terrific book.” - Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic: Poems"Deeply engaged in poetry, history, and trauma theory, The Wounded Line is for anyone who wants to understand that complex intersection of pain, memory, and art. Part meditation on the way trauma works in the mind (as nightmare, as inhibition, as creative force) and part resource for writers who would learn to transform individual and generational trauma into poetry, this book should be in every teacher’s and every poet’s library. Dubrow writes with clarity, sensitivity, and intelligence, shining a bright light across very difficult terrain." - Kevin Prufer, author of The Fears