Wife

Peepal Tree Press Ltd

Wife\nby Tiphanie Yanique\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 2\u20133 working days (dispatched today if ordered before 3pm).\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Tiphanie Yanique\nTitle: Wife\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Poetry by individual poets\nPublisher: Peepal Tree Press Ltd\nPublication year: 2015\nISBN-13: 9781845232948\nISBN-10: 1845232941\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nThe 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. \nPoems that are cutting about male self-deceptions and arrogations of p.