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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
- Front cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- How To Become a Bad Wife
- Epithalamion: The GrandCanyon Was a Long Way Down
- The Mean Game
- Yesterday, I Went to the Market
- The Crow Takes the Body
- Scrapbook
- Your Motto
- The Sleep
- The Bad Wife’s Ankle
- Two Men
- How to Become a Bad Mother
- (N)ever Thought
- How to Have Encounters with Foxes
- The Danger in the Georgian Guest House
- The Bad Wife’s Clavicle
- The Pine Siskln
- And Let’s Not Forget Christina Lake
- The Crow Gives a Body
- The Bad Wife’s Vulva
- Portrait of My Life as a Nurse Log
- Guilt
- Divorce Sudoku
- So, Say I
- The Moral Responsibility to Be Intelligent
- This Is My 21st Wedding Anniversary
- Don’t Feed the Animals
- She Tells Me
- There Is No Word
- Reasons for My Husband’s Inattentiveness
- Styx and Stones
- Vagabond
- How to Be a Bad Ex-Wife
- Double Fisting
- Become
- No Matter the Shape of Things. You Are Much Missed
- Inclement Weather
- Omen: Calla Lillies
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue: On Our First/Last Toast
- Epilogue
- Other Titles from University of Alberta Press
