In Feminine Gospels, Carol Ann Duffy draws on the historical, the archetypal, the biblical and the fantastical to create various visionsand revisionsof 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 aspectas bodies and corpses, writers and workers, shoppers and slimmers, fairytale royals or girls-next-door.Part of Duffys talentbesides her ear for ordinary eloquence, her gorgeous, powerful, throwaway lines, her subtletyis her ventriloquism . . From verbal nuances to mind-expanding imaginative leaps, her words seem freshly plucked from the minds of non-poetsthat is, she makes it look easyCharlotte Mendelson, author of The Exhibitionist, Observer Format Häftad Omfång 80 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Pan Macmillan Utgivningsdatum 2024-02-08 ISBN 9781035038565