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The World's Wife: Poems

The World's Wife: Poems - Paperback

by Carol Ann Duffy
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Availability:In StockContributor:Carol Ann DuffyPublish date:2001-04-09Pages:96
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780571199952ISBN-10:057119995XUPC:9780571199952Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.00 x 5.40 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.25Product ID:SC24FSJEW5

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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780571199952ISBN-10:057119995XUPC:9780571199952Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.00 x 5.40 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.25Product ID:SC24FSJEW5

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.


Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Carol Ann Duffy

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