Feminine Gospels

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Her poems address issues such as oppression, gender, and violence, in an accessible language that has made them popular in schools. This is all done through subject and form as a way of enlightening the reader into very current issues in the modern world. duffy is an exquisite poet but even the best of them, as she is, produce anthologies that mix on responses garnered.

Part of Duffy's talent -- besides her ear for ordinary eloquence, her gorgeous, powerful, throwaway lines, her subtlety -- is her ventriloquism . In Duffy’s poem “Sub” the reader is asked to consider “what if a woman was there,” in certain situations.

Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. Featuring a vibrant rainbow design, and our super-sized Q logo, you won't find a more stylish way to make a statement.

It is not merely a desire to encapsulate women, but a desire to press the issue of better understanding women. With most of the poems having asyndetic listings and no rhyme schemes I felt bored and couldn’t read the collection in one sitting because of the repetitiveness throughout. In "The Map Woman", for instance, an A-to-Z street map of the town in which a woman has grown up is tattooed over the skin of her whole body. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The longest poem, although my least favourite, “The Laughter of Stafford Girls’ High,” is the one where the poet’s pure delight in language is clearly tangible. I have been a fan of Carol Ann Duffy’s for some years now; she is a wonderful poet, whose work always speaks to me.

This book is not bound by a theme like The World's Wife, which trained an idiosyncratic eye on the women at the side of historical or legendary men.Throughout Feminine Gospels the reader understands a little bit more about how society views or pressures women, and even how women view and pressure themselves. As a way of coupling this poem, Duffy follows it up with “The Diet”a poem that examines how women are pressured into a certain body image through these idolizations. If I read a poem, it doesn't have to be immediately obvious to me what it's about, but I don't want to have to Google the poem to see what the hell is going on. She has become literally that thin woman notoriously found inside every fat one, except in this version, she has no wish to get out . Not everything is this dark, but there’s this underlying sense of vulnerability echoing throughout the collection.