Wife - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Peepal Tree PressISBN-13:9781845232948ISBN-10:1845232941UPC:9781845232948Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Caribbean & Latin American, AmericanBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:8.00 x 5.10 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.2Product ID:SCGPQBJ8CC
The title of Wife is both ironic and deeply serious. There are wittily sharp poems on the gender inequalities and potential prisons of marriage, that are in dialogue with poems that celebrate the physical joys of intimacy and poems that explore the processes of self-creation that take place in the closeness to the male other. These spare, elegant poems are not only intensely body focused and attentive to the minutiae of domestic space, but that they make connections to the worlds of family, church, village and nation - and even, in a poem the references the parable of the wise and foolish virgins, to the soul.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Peepal Tree PressISBN-13:9781845232948ISBN-10:1845232941UPC:9781845232948Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Caribbean & Latin American, AmericanBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:8.00 x 5.10 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.2Product ID:SCGPQBJ8CC
Tiphanie Yanique is the author of Land of Love and Drowning, which won the BOCAS Prize in Caribbean Literature and other awards. She is also the author of How to Escape from a Leper Colony. Her writing has won the Boston Review Prize in Fiction, a Pushcart Prize, and an Academy of American Poet's Prize. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, Best African American Fiction, the Wall Street Journal, American Short Fiction and other places.
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