For centuries, the world’s most embattled social and political movements have expressed themselves in part through poetry—and feminism is no different. The poetry collections below give us a window into the quiet, solitary moments of some of the modern era’s leading feminist voices. By turns fearless, intimate, wry, and laugh-out-loud funny, these collections will strengthen […]
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 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.
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.
". . . For lovers of myth, or just a good tell, this dark and darkly comic volume has much to offer." (Kirkus Reviews)
" . . . The élan of this volume sets it apart, the characters (and poems) triumphant." (The New Yorker)
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 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.
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.
". . . For lovers of myth, or just a good tell, this dark and darkly comic volume has much to offer." (Kirkus Reviews)
" . . . The élan of this volume sets it apart, the characters (and poems) triumphant." (The New Yorker)
The World's Wife
135The World's Wife
135Related collections and offers
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781405861854 |
---|---|
Publisher: | Longman Group Limited |
Publication date: | 10/28/2007 |
Series: | York Notes Advanced Series |
Pages: | 135 |
Product dimensions: | 5.70(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.40(d) |