World's Wife Poems

Name: World's Wife Poems
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ISBN: 9780571199952

ISBN-10: 057119995X

ISBN-13: 9780571199952

Edition: 2001

Authors: Carol Ann Duffy, Carol A. Duffy

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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

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 4/9/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 5.45" wide x 8.25" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

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