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The everyday wife / Phillippa Yaa de Villiers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De Villiers, Phillippa Yaa.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- De Villiers, Phillippa Yaa.
- South African poetry--21st century.
- South African poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 89 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Everyday wife ; poems
- Place of Publication:
- Athlone, South Africa : Modjaji Books, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The everyday wife is a handy little book of practical poetry for any occasion. Mischievous and profound words recreate everyday life in South Africa and other parts of the world. In this, her second volume of poetry, Phillippa Yaa de Villiers unravels the security blanket of routines, exposing the soul of the quotidian.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Foreword
- Contents
- Part 1.
- Lasso
- Chinatown
- Stolen rivers
- Envy
- The everyday wife
- Night-fishing with Daddy
- Origin
- Getting to know yourselfin Amsterdam museums
- In the red
- Tissue paper
- What the dead say
- Hell in a handbag
- Part 2.
- Cirque ordinateur
- Eating times two
- Love at a distance: a cycle for America
- The dark around my neck
- Problem child
- Faithful as a shadow
- The Middle Promise
- Dismissed
- Part 3.
- Unfinished business
- Going down there
- A safe house is a place of fear
- Sixty-nine bullets
- Jozi parks
- Home drenched
- The guest
- Song of the dead
- Switching on the light
- Part 4.
- Anthem
- The quiet conversation
- Trance
- Breastsummer
- The organ of love
- All doors
- Red apples
- Biscuit
- Muse
- The banquet
- The giver
- Acknowledgements
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 1-283-06342-5
- 9786613063427
- 1-920397-57-4
- 1-920397-16-7
- OCLC:
- 923563225
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