The title of Wife is 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. Poems that are cutting about male self-deceptions and
arrogations of power speak to poems that display a deep sensitivity
to the aloneness of the embattled male psyche. This is not verse in
the confessional mode, but poems that take on other voices, other
histories and explore the relationship between experiences and the
way we mythologise them. 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. Their context
is a Virgin Islands' past, a Black American present, and an
enlarged human future.
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