Feminine Gospels
A Powerful Poetry Collection of Female Identity
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3.7 • 3 Ratings
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- £5.99
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- £5.99
Publisher 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, Observer
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In preaching Feminine Gospels, Manchester, U.K.-based poet Carol Ann Duffy creates speakers to articulate "The Diet," "The Woman Who Shopped," "The Laughter of Swofford Girls High" and a woman "dreaming/ till the stars are blue in the face/ printing the news of their old light."
