In her fifth volume of poetry, British poet Duffy presents to us
the world of the liminal wife. Here we do not find annals of
Victoria or Medea or Eleanor Roosevelt, but rather catch an
imaginative glimpse into the lives of real and mythic women whose
stories were not exactly their own: Mrs. Faust, Queen Herod, and
Frau Freud, to name a few. Each of the 30 or so women featured in
Duffys collection regales us with her side of her famous partners
story, and the result is often insightful and always entertaining.
Duffys verse is at once tight and resonant, her language colloquial
and engaging, her rhymes refreshing. While a great strength of the
volume is its thematic unity, these poems are better swallowed in
short snatches, for the tone of the wifes lament is often so
consistent that the uniqueness of each womans plight gets debased.
For instance, Mrs. Tiresiass dilemma (All I know is this: / he went
out for his walk a man / and came home female) differs quite a bit
from Eurydices discomfort in hell (the one place youd think a girl
would be safe / from the kind of a man who follows her round /
writing poems), yet they come to us in a strikingly similar voice.
Reminiscent of Sextons Transformations (1971), these works take the
plots of some classic tales and give them a wry, mod twist.For
lovers of myth, or just a good tell, this dark and darkly comic
volume has much to offer. (Kirkus Reviews)
In this collection of Carol Ann Duffy's poems, the stories of famous men - Midas, Darwin, Quasimodo, Pontius Pilate, King Kong - are presented from the perspective of the lesser-known wife.
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