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. I forgot the oath: Do no harm. -from “Yesterday, I Went to the Market”
| ISBN: | 9781772125481 |
| Publication date: | 9th March 2021 |
| Author: | Micheline Maylor |
| Publisher: | University of Alberta Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 88 pages |
| Series: | Robert Kroetsch Series |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards) |