
In Feminine Gospels Carol Ann Duffy draws on the historical the archetypal the biblical & the fantastical to create various visions
- & revisions
- of female identity Simultaneously stripping women bare & revealing them in all their guises & disguises these poems tell tall stories as though they were true confessions & spin modern myths from real women seen in every aspect
- as bodies & corpses writers & workers shoppers & slimmers fairytale royals or girls-next-door Part of Duffy's talent
- besides her ear for ordinary eloquence her gorgeous powerful throwaway lines her subtlety
- is her ventriloquism From verbal nuances to mind-expanding imaginative leaps her words seem freshly plucked from the minds of non-poets
- that is she makes it look easy' Charlotte Mendelson Observer