{"product_id":"wife-9781845232948","title":"Wife","description":"The title of \u003ci\u003eWife \u003c\/i\u003eis 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. These spare, elegant poems are not only intensely body focused and attentive to the minutiae of domestic space, but that they make connections to the worlds of family, church, village and nation - and even, in a poem the references the parable of the wise and foolish virgins, to the soul.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTiphanie Yanique\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eLand of Love and Drowning\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the BOCAS Prize in Caribbean Literature and other awards. She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Escape from a Leper Colony\u003c\/i\u003e. Her writing has won the Boston Review Prize in Fiction, a Pushcart Prize, and an Academy of American Poet's Prize. Her writing has been published in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBest African American Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e American Short Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e and other places.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Peepal Tree Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52179963740434,"sku":"9781845232948","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1f52ca65-7c45-4940-b58c-c2611772f3be.jpg?v=1775640710","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/wife-9781845232948","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}