Wife
A poetry collection that sharply examines marriage, intimacy, and power. Behind its concise language, bodily feeling and family history resonate quietly.
Work Information
It looks at both the blessing and the constraint inside marriage.
Winner of the 2016 Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the book uses a sequence of short poems to examine the dynamics inside marriage and the making of the self.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Peepal Tree Pr Ltd
- Published
- 2015-11-01
- Pages
- 70 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.34 x 0.76 x 20.96 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781845232948
- ISBN-10
- 1845232941
- Price
- 2109 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/American
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 the author of Land of Love and Drowning , which won the 2014 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Award from the Center for Fiction, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation Award and was a finalist for both the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award, the Orion Award in Environmental Literature and the BOCAS Prize in Caribbean Literature. She is also the author of How to Escape from a Leper Colony . Her writing has won the 2011 Bocas Award for Caribbean Fiction, Boston Review Prize in Fiction, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship 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.