Wife by Tiphanie Yanique
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.
Tiphanie Yanique is from Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands. The author of the story collection How to Escape from a Leper Colony, she is a 2010 Rona Jaffe Writers' Award winner and was named by the National Book Awards as one of 2011's 5 Under 35. She teaches at the New School and lives in Brooklyn and Saint Thomas.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781845232948 |
| ISBN 10 | 1845232941 |
| Title | Wife |
| Author | Tiphanie Yanique |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Peepal Tree Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2015-11-30 |
| Number of pages | 64 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Felix Dennis Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection 2016 |
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