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Feminine Gospels

Feminine Gospels

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I love love love Carol Ann Duffy, and some poems were beautiful, but most were too abstract or vague. The reader is given an extensive list of characters in “The Laughter” which represent dynamic women in varying situations of school, work, and personal life. In Feminine Gospels, the woman – in all of her many shapes and forms – has been presented as the oracle. All in all, pretty good, took a while to warm up to, and I'm unsure that I would have understood a lot of the poems if I hadn't been studying it in class. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Duffy is causing the reader to begin to question these very hard and true facts of everyday life in extraordinary circumstances and representations as a way of allowing the reader to become uncomfortable with themselves. This is very true for Duffy’s work, but what makes Feminine Gospels impressive and important is that throughout the reader is allowed to have realizations about previous poems because of a latter poems subject matter or emphasized portion with form. One of the most problematic portions of reviewing an entire book of poetry is that with each poem the reader is given a far different story or concept.And though she uses conventional stanza forms she somehow seems to make their blocks disappear so that they all blend smoothly into a delicious current, causing the poems to flow, carrying the alluvial affection for Duffy's subject. 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.

the quality never once slips and remains impressive throughout, but instead, it is personal connection that wavers. I found the poetry lay mainly in the asides: a teacher on a cold night, watching her own breath, a moment of loving abandon, an evocation of "The world like Quink outside". Overall, though, it must be said that Carol Ann Duffy's lyricism flows beautifully across the pages like water and it is a pure joy to read every single line of text. A mysterious giggle grows ineluctably into an all-consuming merriment that destroys the whole structure of grammar school propriety.

Yet, rather as the Long Queen - in the poem that opens this collection - rules over a female population of "wetnurses/witches, widows, wives, mothers of all these", Duffy too knows her constituency.

I’d never have picked this up if it weren’t for Jen Campbell talking about her poems so passionately in one of her videos.Together, they will challenge and entertain as they explore the fullness of the female condition through their author's unique poetic voice.



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