The bad wife / Micheline Maylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maylor, Micheline, author.

Series:

Robert Kroetsch series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marriage--Poetry.

Marriage.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

79 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : University of Alberta Press, [2021]

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

How to Become a Bad Wife p. 1

Epithalamion: The Grand Canyon Was a Long Way Down p. 2

The Mean Game p. 3

Yesterday, I Went to the Market p. 4

The Crow Takes the Body p. 5

Scrapbook p. 6

Your Motto p. 7

The Sleep p. 8

The Bad Wife's Ankle p. 9

Two Men p. 10

How To Become A Bad Mother p. 11

(N)Ever Thought p. 12

How to Have Encounters with Foxes p. 13

The Danger of Georgian Guest Houses p. 14

The Bad Wife's Clavicle p. 15

The Pine Siskin p. 16

And Let's Not Forget Christina Lake p. 17

The Crow Gives a Body p. 18

The Bad Wife's Vulva p. 19

Portrait of My Life as a Nurse Log p. 20

Guilt p. 21

Divorce Sudoku p. 22

So, Say I p. 23

The Moral Responsibility to Be Intelligent p. 24

This is My 21st Wedding Anniversary p. 25

Don't Feed the Animals p. 26

She Tells Me p. 27

There is No Word p. 28

Reasons for My Husband's Inattentiveness p. 29

Styx and Stones p. 30

Vagabond p. 31

How to Be a Bad Ex-Wife p. 32

Double Fisting p. 33

Become p. 34

No Matter the Shape of Things, You Are Much Missed p. 35

Inclement Weather p. 36

Omen: Calla Lilies p. 40.

Notes:

Poems.

Other Format:

Online version: Maylor, Micheline, 1970- Bad wife.

ISBN:

9781772125481

1772125482

OCLC:

1162442686