Winner of the 2007 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize “How honored I am―how lucky―to have been able to choose this superb first book by Djelloul Marbrook that honors a lifetime of hidden achievement. . . . Sometimes the poems seem utterly symbolic, surreal; they are philosophical, historical, psychological, political, and spiritual. The genius is in the many ways these poems can be read. I kept being rewarded by new awarenesses of the poet’s intentions, by the breadth and scope of the manuscript. As I read, I felt more and more that it was impossible that this was a first book. It seemed the writer knew exactly what to say, and, more importantly, exactly what to leave out.” ―Toi Derricotte, judge “In a dizzying and divisive time, it’s beautiful to see how Djelloul Marbrook’s wise and flinty poems outfox the Furies of exile, prejudice, and longing. Succinct, aphoristic, rich with the poet’s resilient clarity in the face of a knockabout world, Far from Algiers is a remarkable and distinctive debut.” ―Cyrus Cassells “Djelloul Marbrook, ‘a highly skilled outsider,’ bursts into poetry with this splendid first book, which brings together the energy of a young poet with the wisdom of long experience.” ―Edward Hirsch Djelloul Marbrook started writing poems in Manhattan when he was fourteen. In his thirties he abandoned poetry after publishing a few poems in small journals, but he never stopped reading and studying poetry. Then at age sixty-seven, appalled by the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the poet within awakened. Stuffing sky-blue notebooks in his pockets, Marbrook began walking around Manhattan determined to affirm his beloved home in the wake of the nihilistic attacks. Far from Algiers emerged from hundreds of poems he has composed in the years since. Marbrook’s voice speaks to anyone who has ever had doubts about belonging. Born in Algiers to an American artist and a Bedouin father and arriving in America as a gravely ill infant, Marbrook has contemplated this issue throughout his life. Far from Algiers explores “belonging” in a society that is in denial about its own nativist sentiments. It speaks of the struggle to belong in a culture that pays lip service to assimilation but does not fully accept anyone perceived as “foreign.” Marbrook examines this issue with unflinching honesty. Anyone rejected by a family member or neighbor or coworker will relate to these well-crafted and moving poems.

Far from Algiers (Wick Poetry First Book, #14)

Literature & Fiction

Marbrook, Djelloul

Poetry

The Kent State University Press

Not many writers about the Mafia listened to the notorious Frank Costello, Vito Genovese and Tony Gallo drinking marsala and chatting in a kitchen, but Djelloul Marbrook, author of Saraceno, did, and he celebrates it with a poet’s ear in this haunting, unique tale of redemption. "Not just another run-of-the-mill Mafia novel." —Small Press Bookwatch

Saraceno

Literary

Bliss Plot Press

Poetry. Art. "Through precise and knowledgeable poetry about visual art, Djelloul Marbrook has made a book almost as good as visiting a museum. In fact, the poems here about museums, galleries, and studios are as penetrating as the ones about the art. Marbrook has lived in a world inhabited by paintings (both his mother and his aunt were noted painters) and these poems testify to years of careful seeing. BRUSHSTROKES AND GLANCES is an intimate book, rich with sly humor, sharp detail, and deep engagement. I will see my own favorite works of art with new attention for having read these beautiful poems"--Maggie Anderson.

Brushstrokes and Glances

Deerbrook Editions

A Warding Circle

Short Stories & Anthologies

Leaky Boot Press

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 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 and at djelloulmarbrook.com.

Even Now the Embers

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 bridge between Arab and Western civilization in this suspenseful and searching adventure at a time when such a bridge is needed most. Marbrook is the author of ten books of poems and ten of fiction. His work has appeared in many journals and anthologies. He is a U.S. Navy veteran, a civilian sailor, a retired newspaper reporter and editor, and an admired photographer.

The Gold Factory: Book 3 of the Light Piercing Water Trilogy

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 the O of Not, songs of algebraic obliteration in which our identities dissolve in the grandeur of a cosmic whole. Algebra, al jabara, means the joining in Arabic, and here the singer sings himself into divine invisibility. Djelloul Marbrook's previous works have won critical acclaim and prestigious prizes, including the 2007 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, the 2010 International Book Award in poetry, and the 2008 Literal Latté fiction prize. As a journalist, poet, writer and activist, he has invested his talent and intellect in an artistic voice exemplifying the best qualities of humanity. Through an engaging, well-reasoned and powerfully clear voice, he gives flight to a spiritual awakening and casts a wise shadow on the canon of American poetry.

Singing in the o of not

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 Sally is all right. But none of them will ever be all right, not Aisling, the widow, and not the children. The novel and the accompanying poetry collection, Sailing Her Navel, are their testament in their own voices. "Marbrook's complex and compelling stories will reward your close attention. Here is a mind--and a moral sense--to reckon with." --Carolyn Kizer, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1985 Djelloul Marbrook's previous works have won critical acclaim and prestigious prizes, including the 2007 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, the 2010 International Book Award in poetry, and the 2008 Literal Latté fiction prize. As a journalist, poet, writer and activist, he has invested his talent and intellect in an artistic voice exemplifying the best qualities of humanity. Through an engaging, well reasoned and powerfully clear voice, he gives flight to a spiritual awakening and casts a haunting light on the canon of American poetry.

Suffer the Children-Sailing Her Navel: Poems & Ludilon: A short novel

Lying like presidents: New and selected poems 2001-2019

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, here is a matter of conscience in a poet who craves anonymity in honor of cosmic oneness but remains craven enough to rely on his name, his vita. The cantos are also a paean to two childhood friends whose echolalia enchanted him and now haunts him. The cantos are followed by poems selected from Marbrook's twelve earlier poetry collections. I don't know anyone else whose writing increases in agility and breadth over time as Marbrook's does. --Lee Gould, editor, La Presa, the Embajadoro Press poetry journal Djelloul Marbrook's previous works have won critical acclaim and prestigious prizes, including the 2007 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, the 2010 International Book Award in poetry, and the 2008 Literal Latt&#65533; fiction prize. As a journalist, poet, writer and activist, he has invested his talent and intellect in an artistic voice exemplifying the best qualities of humanity. Through an engaging, well reasoned and powerfully clear voice, he gives flight to a spiritual awakening and casts a haunting light on the canon of American poetry.

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Far from Algiers (Wick Poetry First Book, #14)

Saraceno

Brushstrokes and Glances

A Warding Circle

Even Now the Embers

The Gold Factory: Book 3 of the Light Piercing Water Trilogy

Singing in the o of not

Suffer the Children-Sailing Her Navel: Poems & Ludilon: A short novel

Lying like presidents: New and selected poems 2001-2019

Lying like presidents: New and selected poems 2001-2019