The Bad Wife
eBook - PDF

The Bad Wife

  1. 84 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Bad Wife

About this book

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"

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Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Epigraph
  5. Contents
  6. How To Become a Bad Wife
  7. Epithalamion: The GrandCanyon Was a Long Way Down
  8. The Mean Game
  9. Yesterday, I Went to the Market
  10. The Crow Takes the Body
  11. Scrapbook
  12. Your Motto
  13. The Sleep
  14. The Bad Wife’s Ankle
  15. Two Men
  16. How to Become a Bad Mother
  17. (N)ever Thought
  18. How to Have Encounters with Foxes
  19. The Danger in the Georgian Guest House
  20. The Bad Wife’s Clavicle
  21. The Pine Siskln
  22. And Let’s Not Forget Christina Lake
  23. The Crow Gives a Body
  24. The Bad Wife’s Vulva
  25. Portrait of My Life as a Nurse Log
  26. Guilt
  27. Divorce Sudoku
  28. So, Say I
  29. The Moral Responsibility to Be Intelligent
  30. This Is My 21st Wedding Anniversary
  31. Don’t Feed the Animals
  32. She Tells Me
  33. There Is No Word
  34. Reasons for My Husband’s Inattentiveness
  35. Styx and Stones
  36. Vagabond
  37. How to Be a Bad Ex-Wife
  38. Double Fisting
  39. Become
  40. No Matter the Shape of Things. You Are Much Missed
  41. Inclement Weather
  42. Omen: Calla Lillies
  43. Notes
  44. Acknowledgements
  45. Prologue: On Our First/Last Toast
  46. Epilogue
  47. Other Titles from University of Alberta Press