The Bad Wife

By Micheline Maylor

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"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1772125482
• ISBN13: 9781772125481
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up