{"product_id":"9780571199952","title":"The World's Wife : Poems","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe World's Wife\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Carol Ann Duffy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBe terrified. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e It's you I love, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eperfect man, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreek God, my own; \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ebut I know you'll go,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e betray me, stray\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom home.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSo better by far for \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eme if you were stone.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--from \"Medusa\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStunningly 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Duffy] offers us the past as it could have been. . . . [Her] project recalls the poems of the Americans Ai and Pamela White Hadas, but the élan of this volume sets it apart, the characters (and poems) triumphant.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Duffy is one of the freshest and bravest talents to emerge in British poetry--any poetry--for years.” —\u003ci\u003eEavan Boland, The Independent on Sunday (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“These thirty poems vibrate with intense colloquialisms, physicality, energy, freshness, and cheek. . . . They leap off the page even in a silent reading. . . . The best are inventive, subversive, and written with great rhythmical and rhyming dash.” —\u003ci\u003eAnthony Thwaite, The Sunday Telegraph (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780571199952\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40673528971470,"sku":"9780571199952","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_d49a7119-5c60-454d-950f-b894095693aa.jpg?v=1643449321","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780571199952","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}