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- Sexes: The Marriage Dialogues
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Northwestern University Press
summary
The poems in Samuel Hazo’s Sexes: The Marriage Dialogues are concerned with how husbands and wives confront each other at life’s various intersections—sometimes casually, sometimes profoundly. It is at these points that the most interesting differences in gender reveal themselves. From the first poem (“Banterers”) to the last (“Ballad of the Old Lovers”) Hazo’s attuned ear picks up quotidian conversational exchanges, but the words are never window dressing. They hint at inevitable insights and misunderstandings born out of conjugal love. Each poem is a vignette of the moving and surprising moments that are married life.
Table of Contents
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- The Banterers
- pp. 3-4
- A New Deal
- pp. 5-6
- Two on the Fly
- pp. 9-10
- Simon Says
- pp. 11-13
- Every Weekend the Willises Go Away
- pp. 14-16
- Undertones
- pp. 30-31
- How Married People Break and Make Up
- pp. 32-33
- How Married People Argue
- pp. 34-36
- Body Language
- pp. 37-38
- Essential Services
- pp. 39-40
- Rank and Fool
- pp. 41-43
- Post Partum
- pp. 46-47
- Duly Noted
- pp. 48-49
- The Way It Usually Ends
- pp. 50-51
- Checkmates
- pp. 55-56
- Poles Apart Together
- pp. 57-58
- Fault Lines
- pp. 59-61
- She Who Has the Last Word
- pp. 62-63
- The Thrower and the Keeper
- pp. 66-68
- The Sum of One Plus One Is One
- pp. 69-70
- Nothing Else to Add
- pp. 71-73
- Before Goodnight
- pp. 74-75
- Ballad of the Old Lovers
- pp. 78-79
Additional Information
ISBN
9780810167612
Related ISBN(s)
9780810152458
MARC Record
OCLC
881892478
Pages
87
Launched on MUSE
2014-06-28
Language
English
Open Access
No