Wife

by Tiphanie Yanique

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845232941
• ISBN13: 9781845232948
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 8.0"