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Feminine Gospels
Carol Ann Duffy
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Description for Feminine Gospels
Hardcover. Clean copy. Fine in unclipped dustwrapper. Dustwrapper has minor sunning to spine but remains excellent
In "Feminine Gospels", Carol Ann Duffy draws on women's experience - both personal and historical - to entertain and challenge through poems which celebrate, elegise and eroticise the female condition. With an architecture of longer poems on beauty, identity and the physical, "Feminine Gospels" tells tall stories as though they were gospel truth and, in so doing, provides a wildly original successor to Duffy's previous best-selling collections, "Mean Time" and "The World's Wife". Praise for Carol Ann Duffy include: 'In the world of British poetry, Carol Ann Duffy is a superstar' - "Guardian". 'Duffy's poems are at once accessible and ... Read more
In "Feminine Gospels", Carol Ann Duffy draws on women's experience - both personal and historical - to entertain and challenge through poems which celebrate, elegise and eroticise the female condition. With an architecture of longer poems on beauty, identity and the physical, "Feminine Gospels" tells tall stories as though they were gospel truth and, in so doing, provides a wildly original successor to Duffy's previous best-selling collections, "Mean Time" and "The World's Wife". Praise for Carol Ann Duffy include: 'In the world of British poetry, Carol Ann Duffy is a superstar' - "Guardian". 'Duffy's poems are at once accessible and ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Picador
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330486439
SKU
KOC0023360
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread, Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. She was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom ... Read more
Reviews for Feminine Gospels
'In the world of British poetry, Carol Ann Duffy is a superstar' Guardian; 'Duffy's poems are at once accessible and brilliantly idiosyncratic and subtle' Observer