The poetry of Forward
Prize winner Tiphanie Yanique may
redefine words like “arresting,” “jarring,” and “mind-altering.”
Yanique’s Wife
won the Forward Prize, given by the Forward Arts Foundation in the
United Kingdom, for best first collection. As the title suggests, it’s a collection
of poems about becoming a wife, being a wife, thinking and rethinking the meaning
of the idea of wife – colored and shaped by a Caribbean context.
We find the
drudgery of housework and considerations of cheating on one’s husband. We find
the romance of elopement and musings of divorce in a happy marriage. We find
musings about one’s one family and experiences in common with all families. And
by the end of the collection we understand that are of these seeming
contradictions are held together, even if in tension, in every relationship and
marriage.
To continue
reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak
Poetry.
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