Feminine Gospels

Name: Feminine Gospels
Brand: Carol Ann Duffy
SKU: 9781035038565
Price: 9.07 GBP
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by Carol Ann Duffy

Title:

Feminine Gospels

Author:

Carol Ann Duffy

Series (if any):

Picador Collection

Format:

Paperback

Number of pages:

80 pages

Publisher:

Macmillan Publishers Int Ltd - MDL

ISBN-13:

9781035038565

EAN:

9781035038565

Classifications:

Poetry

Weight (g):

202

Dimensions (mm):

130 x 197 x 8

Publication Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Condition:

New

Price:£9.07

116 copies in stock

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Description

In Feminine Gospels, Carol Ann Duffy draws on the historical, the archetypal, the biblical and the fantastical to create various visions – and revisions – of female identity.

Simultaneously stripping women bare and revealing them in all their guises and disguises, these poems tell tall stories as though they were true confessions, and spin modern myths from real women seen in every aspect – as bodies and corpses, writers and workers, shoppers and slimmers, fairytale royals or girls-next-door.

‘Part of Duffy’s talent – besides her ear for ordinary eloquence, her gorgeous, powerful, throwaway lines, her subtlety – is her ventriloquism . . . From verbal nuances to mind-expanding imaginative leaps, her words seem freshly plucked from the minds of non-poets – that is, she makes it look easy’ – Charlotte Mendelson, author of The Exhibitionist, Observer