Wife by Yanique, Tiphanie

Wife

The title of Wife is both ironic and deeply serious. There are wittily sharp poems on the...
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Author: Tiphanie Yanique
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Language: English
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Wife by Yanique, Tiphanie

Wife

$214.04

Wife

$214.04
Author: Tiphanie Yanique
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.

Poems that are cutting about male self-deceptions and arrogations of power speak to poems that display a deep sensitivity to the aloneness of the embattled male psyche. This is not verse in the confessional mode, but poems that take on other voices, other histories and explore the relationship between experiences and the way we mythologise them.

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. Their context is a Virgin Islands' past, a Black American present, and an enlarged human future.



Author: Tiphanie Yanique
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
Published: 11/01/2015
Pages: 72
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781845232948


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/01/2015 pg. 104
Publishers Weekly 01/04/2016

About the Author
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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