The World's Wife
of Carol Ann Duffy
Description
Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me, strayfrom 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 girlfriends 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.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 76 pages
- Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publication Date April 9th 2001
- First Publication 09/06/99
- Language English
- ISBN 9780571199952
- Edition Not informed
- Category Poetry & Essays
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