Djelloul Marbrook Explained

Djelloul Marbrook, also known as Del Mabrouk^[1] (born 1934), is an American contemporary poet,^[2] writer, and photographer.

Biography

Djelloul Marbrook was born in 1934 in Algiers, Algeria, to parents Juanita Guccione (née Rice) and Ben Aissa ben Mabrouk. Marbook's father was Algerian and he moved with only his mother to New York City when he was a young child.^[3] He was raised by his extended family, primarily by his grandmother and aunts. Marbook grew up in Brooklyn, West Islip, and Manhattan. He attended Dwight Preparatory School, and Columbia University.

Marbook worked as a soda jerk, newspaper vendor, messenger, theater and nightclub concessionaire, and served in the United States Navy and as a Merchant Marine before beginning his newspaper career. Marbrook learned photography in the United States Navy and became a reporter-photographer. Marbrook was married to Wanda Ratliff from 1955 to 1963, which ended in divorce. He is married to Marilyn Hackett Marbrook.

Career

He was a reporter for The Providence Journal^[4] and an editor for the Elmira Star-Gazette, The Baltimore Sun,^[5] Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel, The Washington Star, and Media News newspapers in northeast Ohio, and Passaic and Paterson, New Jersey. His poems, essays, and short stories have appeared in a number of journals.

Published works

Books

• Book: Marbrook, Djelloul. Far from Algiers: Poems. Kent State University Press. 2008. 9780873389877. Issue 14 of Wick Poetry Series. Ohio. ^[6] winner of the 2007 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, and the 2010 International Book Award in poetry, explores the poet's feelings of not belonging to family or country.
• Book: Marbrook, Djelloul. Brushstrokes and Glances: Poems. Deerbrook Editions. 2010. 9780982810019. Maine.
• Book: Marbrook, Djelloul. Saraceno. Bliss Plot Press. 2012. 978-0-9718908-8-6. ^[7]
• Brash Ice (2014, Leaky Boot Press)
• Mean Bastards Making Nice (2014, Leaky Book Press)
• Riding Thermals to Winter Grounds (2017, Leaky Boot Press)
• A Warding Circle: New York stories (2017, Leaky Boot Press)
• Air Tea with Dolores (2017, Leaky Boot Press)
• Making Room: Baltimore stories (2017, Leaky Boot Press)
• Nothing True Has a Name (2017, Leaky Boot Press)
• Even Now the Embers (2017, Leaky Boot Press)
• Other Risks Include (2017, Leaky Boot Press)
• The Seas Are Dolphin's Tears, (2018 Leaky Boot Press)
• Light Piercing Water trilogy (2018, Leaky Boot Press)
  • Book 1, Guest Boy
  • Book 2, Crowds of One
  • Book 3, The Gold Factory
• Songs in the O of Not (2019, Leaky Boot Press)
• The Loneliness of Shape (2019, Leaky Boot Press)
• Suffer the Children: Sailing Her Navel (poems) & Ludilon (novella) (2019, Leaky Boot Press)
• Lying Like Presidents, New & Selected Poems, 2001–2019 (2020, Leaky Boot Press)

Awards

• Far from Algiers (2008, Kent State University Press) won the 2007 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize and the 2010 International Book Award in poetry.
• "Artists Hill", an excerpt from Crowds of One, Book 2 in the Guest Boy trilogy, won the 2008 Literal Latté fiction prize.

External links

• Marbrook's website
• Marbrook's Book website
• Marbrook video #1
• Marbrook video #2

Notes and References

1. Book: Evory. Ann. Contemporary Authors: A Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, and Other Fields. Vol. 73-76. Draper. James P.. Locher. Frances Carol. 1978. Gale Research Company. 978-0-8103-0031-6. 403. en.
2. News: Marbrook. Djelloul. Nye. Naomi Shihab. 2020-11-25. Poem: The next what-have-you. en-US. The New York Times. 2021-09-23. 0362-4331.
3. Web site: Shengold. Nina. 2013-08-07. The Literary Palette of Djelloul Marbrook. 2021-09-24. Chronogram Magazine. en.
4. Web site: Atroun. Warda. McCormick. Joneve. INTERVIEW - Djelloul Marbrook - The Peregrine Muse. 2021-09-24. The Peregrine Muse.
5. Web site: 2018-11-19. "The Seas Are Dolphins' Tears" And More From Poet Djelloul Marbrook. 2021-09-24. WAMC. en.
6. Book: Poets & Writers. 2008. Poets & Writers, Incorporated. 126. en.
7. Web site: Saraceno. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20170918225336/http://home.earthlink.net/~blissplotpress/saraceno.html. 2017-09-18. 2016-07-18.