| The Bad Wife Contributor(s): Maylor, Micheline (Author) |
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ISBN: 1772125482 ISBN-13: 9781772125481 Publisher: University of Alberta Press OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Women Authors - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Family - Poetry | Canadian |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2022360257 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.8" W x 8.8" (0.30 lbs) 88 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Micheline Maylor's The Bad Wife is an intimate, first-hand account of how to ruin a marriage. This is a story of divorce, love, and what should have been, told in a brave and unflinching voice. Pulling the reader into a startling web of sensuality, guilt, resentment, and pleasure, this collection asks: what if you set off a bomb in your own house? What if you lose love and destroy everything you ever knew? These poems have a disarming immediacy, full of surprising imagery, dark humour, and the bold thoughts of a vibrant and flawed protagonist. Balancing a need for wildness and the space to dwell, The Bad Wife explores the taut confines of those vivid, earthly pleasures that we all know and sometimes can't escape. I forgot the oath: Do no harm. -from "Yesterday, I Went to the Market" |