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The World's Wife: Poems
Contributor(s): Duffy, Carol Ann (Author)
ISBN: 057119995X     ISBN-13: 9780571199952
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
OUR PRICE:   $16.20  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 2001
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Annotation: "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.
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 821.9
LCCN: 99087010
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.4" W x 8" (0.25 lbs) 96 pages
 
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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.

Contributor Bio(s): Duffy, Carol Ann: - Carol Ann Duffy is the author or editor of several volumes of poetry, including The World's Wife, Rapture, and also books for children. She has received, among other honors, the Forward Prize, the Whitbread Poetry Award, the Lannan Award, and the E. M. Forster Prize for her work. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Duffy lives in Manchester, England, and is currently Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University.