Djelloul Marbrook

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

Biography

Djelloul Marbrook (b.Algiers, Algeria, August 12, 1934) is an American poet, novelist, photographer and journalist. His mother, the artist Juanita Guccione (née Anita Rice, 1904-1999), having spent several years painting among the Ouled Nail tribe in Bou Saada, took him to the United States when he was a few weeks old. He never knew his father. Suffering from what is now known as failure to thrive, he lived with his grandmother, Hilda Rice, and his aunt, Dorothy Rice, in Brooklyn, New York, for the first five years of his life. His health improved, his mother removed him to a boarding school in West Islip, New York, where he remained for 10 years. He is the adopted son of the late Dominick John Guccione, a Manhattan fur rug manufacturer and landlord. He graduated from Dwight Preparatory School in Manhattan and attended Columbia University. In Manhattan Marbrook worked as a newspaper vendor in Hell’s Kitchen, a messenger, and concessionaire at the Ziegfeld Theater and several nightclubs.

In May of his third year at Columbia he suffered a severe psychological breakdown that involved periodic loss of memory, probably rooted in sexual abuse in boarding school. He then joined the Merchant Marine and subsequently the U.S. Navy, serving on the aircraft carrier Leyte and at Quonset Point, Rhode Island. Discharged as a first class journalist after four years’ active duty, he became a reporter and photographer for The Providence (RI) Journal-Bulletin. In 1955 he married Wanda May Ratliff with whom he had two children, Annie (née Dorothy) Petty and Darya Miller. That marriage ended in 1963 in divorce.

Marbrook, who adopted the name Del Marbrook at the prompting of an editor, later served as city editor for the Elmira (NY) Star-Gazette, copy editor for The Baltimore Sun, Sunday editor for The Winston-Salem (NC) Journal-Sentinel, reporter for the National Journal, copy editor for The Washington (DC) Star, and executive editor for Media News newspapers in northeastern Ohio and Passaic and Paterson, NJ.

In 1971 he married Marilyn Hackett Yarbrough whom he met when they worked at the Winston-Salem newspaper. Marilyn Marbrook played a significant role in his subsequent career as a poet and novelist, acting as his initial editor and advisor. She retired in 1999 as publisher and editor for the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics in Washington, DC.

Together, they managed the artistic estates of his mother, Juanita Guccione, a surrealist whose oeuvre is represented by Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, and his aunt, the renowned pioneer abstract artist I. (Irene) Rice Pereira.

Published works

Books
  • From From Algiers 2008, Kent State University Press, winner of 14th Stan and Tom Wick Prize, translated into Arabic by Miloud Homida in 2020 and published by Ansana House in Algeria.
  • Brushstrokes and Glances, 2010, Deerbrook Editions, ME.
  • Saraceno, a novella, 2019, Strange Recital, Woodstock, NY.
  • Brash Ice, poems, 2014, Leaky Boot Press, UK.
  • Mean Bastards Making Nice, novellas, 2014, Leaky Book Press, UK.
  • Riding Thermals to Winter Grounds, poems, 2017, Leaky Boot Press, UK.
  • A Warding Circle: New York stories, 2017, Leaky Boot Press, UK.
  • Air Tea with Dolores, poems, 2017, Leaky Boot Press, UK.
  • Making Room: Baltimore stories, 2017, Leaky Boot Press, UK.
  • Nothing True Has a Name, poems, 2017, Leaky Boot Press, UK.
  • Even Now the Embers, poems, 2017, Leaky Boot Press, UK.
  • Other Risks Include, poems, 2017, Leaky Boot Press, UK.
  • The Seas Are Dolphin's Tears, poems, 2018 Leaky Boot Press, UK.[3]
  • Light Piercing Water, novels, 2018, Leaky Boot Press, UK.
    • Book 1, Guest Boy
    • Book 2, Crowds of One
    • Book 3, The Gold Factory
  • Singing in the O of Not, poems, 2019, Leaky Boot Press, UK.
  • The Loneliness of Shape, poems, 2019, Leaky Boot Press, UK.
  • Suffer the Children, 2019, Leaky Boot Press, UK.
    • Sailing Her Navel, poems
    • Ludilon, novella
  • Lying Like Presidents, New & Selected Poems 2001–2019,2020, Leaky Boot Press, UK.
  • Djelloul Marbrook Book Videos

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.[4]
  • "Artists Hill", an excerpt from Crowds of One, Book 2 in the Guest Boy trilogy, won the 2008 Literal Latté fiction prize.[3]

References
  1. Evory, Ann; Draper, James P.; Locher, Frances Carol (1978). 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. Gale Research Company. p. 403. ISBN 978-0-8103-0031-6.
  2. Marbrook, Djelloul; Nye, Naomi Shihab (2020-11-25). "Poem: The next what-have-you". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
  3. ""The Seas Are Dolphins' Tears" And More From Poet Djelloul Marbrook". WAMC. 2018-11-19. Retrieved 2021-09-24.
  4. Poets & Writers. Poets & Writers, Incorporated. 2008. p. 126.
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