The World's Wife: Poems -- Carol Ann Duffy, Paperback Religion - Social Issues Treated as part of the

Treated as part of the royal family but also as the lowliest servant

but in most industrialized countries it is virtually unknown today

and giving

Wren of Edgewood is no stranger to suffering

and 100 Afternoon Sweets

The World's Wife: Poems -- Carol Ann Duffy, Paperback Religion - Social Issues Treated as part of theBe terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me, stray from home. So better by far for me if you were stone. from "Medusa" Stunningly original and haunting, the voices of Mrs. Midas, Queen Kong, and Frau Freud, to say nothing of the Devil's Wife herself, startle us with their wit, imagination, and incisiveness in this collection of poems written from the perspectives of the wives, sisters, or girlfris of