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Djelloul Marbrook
The linked cantos comprising Lying Like Presidents are a kind of echolalia in the service of anonymity. Echolalia, usually associated either with a child learning to speak or a disorder…
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Djelloul Marbrook, a prize-winning poet and novelist, celebrates 15 years of research and writing in this epic trilogy, which recalls The Odyssey and The Seven Voyages of Sindbad. He builds…
A young war widow at the author’s boarding school molests him and his classmate Sally. Ludilon, a short novel, portrays him as an adult obeying an impulse to learn if…
The magical warding circle on the cover is called Conjured Harm Returns to the Sender. A beautiful young artist struck by lightning in the Catskills shows the reader just how…
A collection of poems that speaks of the struggle to belong in a culture that pays lip service to assimilation but does not fully accept anyone perceived as ‘foreign’.
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Acclaimed author Djelloul Marbrook here offers us two powerfully original novellas that centre on the New York art world. The Pain of Wearing Our Faces is about an art teacher…
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…
These alchemical poems challenge our compulsion to categorize and pigeonhole. They inquire deeply into the passion for containment symbolized by classical Greek vessels. The poems seek to define the idea…
Other Risks Include distills a lifetime of pain, growth, and insight into a suite of hair-raising poems.
Djelloul Marbrook was born in Algiers and grew up in New York. He…
… the energy of a young poet with the wisdom of long experience.Edward Hirsch, Guggenheim Foundation
Air Tea With Dolores explores a six-year-old boy’s hurt and confusion at being…
In Riding Thermals to Winter Grounds the poet, a cleanup man who has settled in the Dachaus of the mind & learned to love the guards, looks back, feels invisibility…
Even now the embers is a singular, sustained act of recollection, a kind of learning to walk on hot coals.
Djelloul Marbrook was born in Algiers and grew up in…
An artist creates a magical room for a young psychiatrist’s adopted infant nephew–a room with the heavens projected above and hideaways in the walls. To help him, he recruits a…
Kill me, skin whispers / to arctic bone, / I’m finished / with this disguise…
So begins the poem Blue Ampersand in Djelloul Marbrook’s tenth collection of poems, Singing in…
A man awakens, not from sleep but from spiritual torpor, and finds himself waiting elves’ tables and attending elementals’ parties. His journey is fabulous and perilous, like Sindbad’s. His recognitions…
The loneliness of shape is a moment’s relief from the great burdens imposed on us by the ordering of society to serve the few. These poems challenge the way we…
New Poetry from a Master
Over the years, Marbrook has mastered a warmly colloquial voice - the poems feel near and dear as an old friend speaking - delivering the…
