World's Wife: Poems by Carol Ann Duffy

World's Wife: Poems

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World's Wife: Poems

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

World's Wife: Poems

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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.
Book Details
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN:
9780571199952
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
96
Authors:
Carol Ann Duffy
Published Date:
2001-04-09
Language:
English
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About Carol Ann Duffy

Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 2009 to 2019, Carol Ann Duffy was the first woman, the first Scot, and the first openly lesbian poet to hold the post. She was born in Glasgow and educated at the University of Liverpool. Her collections include The World's Wife (Picador, 1999), Standing Female Nude (Anvil Press, 1985), and Mean Time (Anvil Press, 1993), which won both the Whitbread Poetry Award and the Forward Prize for Best Collection. She is Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2015.

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