The World's Wife: Poems by Duffy, Carol Ann

The World's Wife: Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780571199952)

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The World's Wife: Poems by Duffy, Carol Ann

The World's Wife: Poems

$18.00
The World's Wife: Poems by Duffy, Carol Ann

The World's Wife: Poems

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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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
ISBN-10: 057119995X
ISBN-13: 9780571199952
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English
Published: 04/09/2001
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.30d
By Carol Ann Duffy
By Carol Ann Duffy
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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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