Parallel Press releases ‘Border Crossings’

Poet Heather Dubrow explores difficult life experiences, including the loss of parents, divorce, medical crisis, accident, and injury in the 11th chapbook of the Parallel Press, “Border Crossings.”

This 12-piece collection explores some of life’s most difficult experiences, or “border crossings.” The chapbook is an emotion-filled collection that delves into some of Dubrow’s personal experiences. She uses both traditional and free-verse forms in her poems.

A chapbook is a small-format literary work, usually of poetry or essays. The chapbooks are published by the Parallel Press, an imprint of the University of Wisconsin–Madison libraries.

Dubrow is also the author of a chapbook titled, “Transformation and Repetition,” a play called “The Devil’s Paintbrush,” and she has published poems in The Journal of the American Medical Association, Southwest Review and Prarie Schooner. Dubrow is the Tighe-Evans Professor and John Bascom Professor in the English Department at UW–Madison.

Each Parallel Press chapbook is $10; annual subscriptions for six are $50. Titles may be ordered by writing: The Parallel Press, 372 Memorial Library, 728 State St., Madison, WI 53706.