編輯推薦:Drawing on women's experience - both personal and historical - this collection of poems celebrates, elegizes and eroticizes the female condition.
內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介:In this brilliant and original successor to her bestselling collection The World's Wife, Carol Ann Duffy draws on the historical, the stereotypical, the biblical and the fantastical, to create various visions and revisions of female identity. Exploring issues of sexuality, beauty and biology, these poems tell tall stories as though they are unconditional truths, spinning modern myths from images of woman as bodies blood, bones and skin and corpses, as writers and workers, shoppers and slimmers, as fairy-tale royals or girls next door. Whether stripping women bare or revealing them in all their (dis)guises, Feminine Gospels celebrates, eroticizes and eulogizes the female form and condition. 'Carol Ann Duffy presents a teasing, quick-witted take on the contemporary woman's experience, looking for the modern in the mythical, picking the fact from the fantastical, finding the truth inside the fairy-tale' The Times 'A wonderful invention that needs to be read at a gallop, and which itself gallops along with a wild, rollicking energy' Sunday Telegraph
作者簡(jiǎn)介:Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of The Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has written for both children and adults, and her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread and Forward Prizes, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. In 2005, she won the T. S. Eliot Prize for Rapture. She was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009.