Efflorescence by Dawn Marar

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Dawn Marar‘s Efflorescence tells the story of a nuptial love that spans continents, bringing the U.S. and Iraq into a single bed, trying to bloom a new world order. In these flower-scented poems, we travel with the poet to Jordan and Palestine to visit her husband’s relatives, curse drones and leaf blowers, meditate on souvenirs from the Middle East, and learn of Abu Khalid, who, “using remnants of weapons, rockets/and tank shells, rolled out the dough to make barley/bread which his son then sold on the street.” Marar employs the bitterness of wars and exile in these poems to make her own homemade manna.
–Philip Metres, author of Sand Opera

 

Dawn Marar‘s chapbook, Efflorescence, is hard hitting and plain spoken. In poems that are as simple in means as they are complex and disturbing in effect, she brings the violence of the Middle East into the intimate spaces of family and married life.

–Alan ShapiroLife Pig

 

Dawn is a Geo-Political romantic cross-cultural language craftswoman with roots in both rich and poor soil. She’s a traveler from back porch suburbia to the war torn world while smartly never overpacked.
–Alan Casline, ROOTDRINKER

 

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Efflorescence

by Dawn Marar

$14.99, paper

978-1-63534-446-2

2018

A graduate of Skidmore College and Columbia University, Dawn Marar lives in New York’s Capital Region. She travels widely and has lived in Manhattan, London and Amman. This first collection reflects her experience as an American, a woman, wife, mother, and activist. In addition to prize-winning poetry, she has published short stories and nonfiction.

1 review for Efflorescence by Dawn Marar

  1. Dianne Sefcik

    Efflorescence! What a journey through love and war. The tension and beauty are palpable. Such an interesting, illuminating and accessible glimpse into a life of global sensibility that very few of us here in the U.S. know. I think it’s an important book and hope many people read it. Wonderful.

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