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The World's Wife (Paperback)

By: Carol Ann Duffy (Author)

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"Duffy can get into any shape she likes and make it speak, and the achievement of THE WORLD'S WIFE is that each of the characters sounds different from the others."

"Duffy humorously renovates familiar narratives (Tiresias's wife blow-dries his newly female hair), often pulling the proverbial rug out from under her readers' expectations."

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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 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.

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The wives of famous men speak for themselves in this fifth collection of poems by Duffy, a British poet. Among those to whom she gives voice are the wives of Freud, King Kong, and the Devil.

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