The Wounded Line: A Guide to Writing Poems of Trauma [Paperback]

A writing guide to processing trauma through the poetic form, Jehanne Dubrow, a well respected writer, speaker, guide, and spouse of a career military officer, offers an experienced and knowledgeable voice to aspiring writers and those working through trauma.

In this accessible and inspiring guide, acclaimed writer Jehanne Dubrow draws on how the study of trauma has defined both her creative work and her teaching.The Wounded Line, the first craft-based writing book of its kind, is grounded not only in research but also in heart, in the belief that even our deepest hurts can find a lyric form. Leading poets through a series of practical approaches to representing pain on the page, Dubrow provides readers with narrative techniques, rhetorical structures, and formal strategies that can be applied to any trauma, from the global and the historical to the intimate and the personal.The Wounded Lineencourages poets at all stages to address the difficult, discomfiting questions that ache within each of us.Jehanne Dubrowis the author of ten poetry collections and three books of creative nonfiction, includingExhibitions: 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."A mas­ter­class on the inter­sec­tion of trau­ma and art and on how and why such poems touch us deeply, The Wound­ed Line will be cher­ished by any­one wish­ing to explore their own painful expe­ri­ences or those of the peo­ple who came before them."“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 cls@