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Title: |
The Bad Wife |
Search Result:
| By (author): |
Micheline Maylor |
| ISBN10-13: |
1772125482 : 9781772125481 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
228x152x6mm |
| Pages: |
88 |
| Weight: |
.120 Kg. |
| Published: |
University of Alberta Press - March 2021 |
| List Price: |
15.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 7 |
| Subjects: |
Poetry |
| Micheline Maylorâ 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 canâ t escape. I forgot the oath: Do no harm. -from â Yesterday, I Went to the Marketâ |
| Table of Contents: |
| Contents 1 How to Become a Bad Wife 2 Epithalamion: The Grand Canyon was a Long Way Down 3 The Mean Game 4 Yesterday, I went to the market 5 The Crow Takes the Body 6 Scrapbook 7 Your Motto 8 The Sleep 9 The Bad Wife's Ankle 10 Two Men 11 How To Become A Bad Mother 12 (N)Ever Thought 13 How to Have Encounters with Foxes 14 The Danger of Georgian Guest Houses 15 The Bad Wife's Clavicle 16 The Pine Siskin 17 And Let's Not Forget Christina Lake 18 The Crow Gives a Body 19 The Bad Wife's Vulva 20 Portrait of My Life as a Nurse Log 21 Guilt 22 Divorce Sudoku 23 So, Say I 24 The Moral Responsibility to be Intelligent 25 This is My 21st Wedding Anniversary 26 Don't Feed the Animals 27 She tells me 28 There is No Word 29 Reasons for My Husband's Inattentiveness 30 Styx and Stones 31 Vagabond 32 How to Be a Bad Ex-Wife 33 Double Fisting 34 Become 35 No Matter the Shape of Things, You are Much Missed 36 Inclement Weather 40 Omen: Calla Lilies 73 Notes 75 Acknowledgements 77 Prologue: On Our First/Last Toast 79 Epilogue |
| Awards / Prizes: |
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Raymond Souster Award / League of Canadian Poets
2022
Canada
Short-listed
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Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry | Alberta Book Awards, Book Publishers Association of Alberta
2022
Canada
Short-listed
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