num_pages: 160
description: Alvi's poems are ""vivid, witty, and imbued with unexpected and delicious glimpses of the surreal-this poet's third country""-Maura Dooley. In these poems her delicately drawn fantasies transform the familiar into strange evocations of the joys and tensions of relationships, of love, intimacy, frustration, jealousy, and paranoia. Includes her first two `The Country at My Shoulder' and `A Bowl of Warm Air' (published by Oxford University Press).
language: English
title: Carrying My Wife
titlecomplete: Carrying My Wife
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 13
publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd