The World's Wife: Poems

Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go,...
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Author: Carol Ann Duffy
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The World's Wife: Poems by Duffy, Carol Ann

The World's Wife: Poems

$44.00

The World's Wife: Poems

$44.00
Author: Carol Ann Duffy
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Be terrified.
It's you I love,
perfect man,
Greek God, my own;
but I know you'll go,
betray me, stray
from home.
So better by far for
me if you were stone.
--from Medusa

Stunningly original and haunting, the voices of Mrs. Midas, Queen Kong, and Frau Freud, to say nothing of the Devil's Wife herself, startle us with their wit, imagination, and incisiveness in this collection of poems written from the perspectives of the wives, sisters, or girlfris of famous -- and infamous -- male personages. Carol Ann Duffy is a master at drawing on myth and history, then subverting them in a vivid and surprising way to create poems that have the pull of the past and the crack of the contemporary.

Author: Carol Ann Duffy
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 04/09/2001
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780571199952

About the Author

Carol Ann Duffy has published four highly praised collections of poetry. Her last, Mean Time, won the Forward Poetry Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Prize. She lives in Manchester, England.


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