Exhibitions

Jehanne Dubrow is the author of nine poetry collections, including The Arranged Marriage: Poems (UNM Press), and two books of creative nonfiction. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of North Texas.

Exhibitions is a fantastic book--both smart and inviting, intimate and outward-looking, creative and critical. It's the best of all worlds in an essay collection, and one I will return to again and again."—Randon Billings Noble, author of Be with Me Always: Essays"These ekphrastic essays do more than extoll beauty or privilege erudition. They insist that art, in all its forms, acts as the ballast against the pain of human cruelty and folly, against the vagaries of time."—Hasanthika Sirisena, author of Dark Tourist: Essays"Exhibitions unsettles art and its purchase. In tautly interlinking essays, Dubrow describes what is unseen, overlooked, or dismissed, and she refuses to look away."—Spring Ulmer, author of Bestiality of the Involved"Told in precise and dreamy detail, Exhibitions portrays truths--the vivid memory, the unexpected detail, the unforgettable word--with the clarity of glass before it breaks."—Alexander Nemerov, author of Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York

• Gallery OneLandscape with BasilicaGallery TwoThe Red Picture and the BlueSnapshot / Warsaw, 1981The Dead ClassFrom the Archives: Lessons in American EnglishEssay, Made of Antique GlassSnapshots / Warsaw, 1987Gallery ThreeMother and ChildPortrait on Metal with Patterned Scarf and Streak of LightSnapshot / Washington, DC, 1986Lost VesselsSnapshot / Lubumbashi, 1978On the Color Matching System; Or, MarriageSeventy-Seven StepsThe LodgerSnapshot / Dallas, 2022Gallery FourAmbivalent ThingsGallery FiveJewel BoxDear RoseSnapshots / Denton, 2018ProvenanceThe ResonatorYou Must StumbleStill Life with Tattered PassportGallery SixAbout the ArtistAcknowledgmentsWorks Cited