Brash Ice - Marbrook, Djelloul
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Dear friend You don't leave much for the undertaker So fully you've inhabited there I've never minded your not being here you being a favorite hallucination but I wonder how you speak of us ....so begins one of the poems in Brash Ice, which, unlike its predecessors, Far From Algiers and Brushstrokes and Glances, looks back on a dervish's trek through the world of illusions and tells us what beguiled and enlightened him. ******** Djelloul Marbrook was born in Algiers and grew up in New York. He served in the U.S. Navy and for many years was a newspaper reporter and editor (Providence Journal,…mehr

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Dear friend You don't leave much for the undertaker So fully you've inhabited there I've never minded your not being here you being a favorite hallucination but I wonder how you speak of us ....so begins one of the poems in Brash Ice, which, unlike its predecessors, Far From Algiers and Brushstrokes and Glances, looks back on a dervish's trek through the world of illusions and tells us what beguiled and enlightened him. ******** Djelloul Marbrook was born in Algiers and grew up in New York. He served in the U.S. Navy and for many years was a newspaper reporter and editor (Providence Journal, Elmira Star- Gazette, Baltimore Sun, Winston-Salem Journal, Washington Star, among others). His awards include the Wick Poetry Prize (2007), the Literal Latté fiction prize (2008), and the International Book Award in Poetry (2010). His poetry has been published in many journals, including American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Taos Poetry Journal, Orbis (UK), Le Zaporogue (Denmark), Oberon, The Same, Reed, Fledgling Rag, Poets Against the War and Poemeleon. He lives in New York's mid-Hudson Valley with his wife Marilyn and maintains a lively presence on Facebook, Twitter, Behance and at djelloulmarbrook.com.
Autorenporträt
Born in Algiers to an American mother and Algerian father. Grew up from infancy in the United States and never knew father. Lived with aunt and grandmother in Brooklyn until age 5, then at a British boarding school on Long Island until age 14. Lived with mother and stepfather in NYC during high school (Dwight Prep) and college (Columbia). US Navy age 20-25. Worked as reporter and bureau chief for Providence Journal, editor for Elmira Star-Gazette, Baltimore Sun, Winston-Salem Journal & Sentinel, National Journal, Washington Star, and Media News in Northeast Ohio and northern New Jersey. Lived in Washington DC and nearby northern Virginia 1970-99. Retired in 1989 to write fiction and poetry. Moved to mid-Hudson Valley in 1999 with wife Marilyn. Advisory board of Writing for Peace. Poetry peer review board of Four Quarters Magazine. Frequent columnist for Vox Populi [voxpopulisphere.com/], operated by Michael Simms, founder of Autumn House. Lively presence on Facebook and Twitter.