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The World's Wife: Poems

The 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 haunt

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  • Author: Duffy, Carol Ann
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Page Count: 96
  • Publish Date: April 09 2001
  • ISBN10: 057119995X
  • Language: English
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By: Carol Ann Duffy

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.

Author: Carol Ann Duffy
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 04/09/2001
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780571199952
Language: English

Author

Duffy, Carol Ann
Binding

ISBN10

057119995X
ISBN13

9780571199952
Page Count

96
Published Date

April 09, 2001
Language

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