Be 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 girlfriends of famous — and infamous — male personages. Carol Ann Duffy is a master at drawing on myth and history then subverting them in a vivid and surprising way to create poems that have the pull of the past and the crack of the contemporary.
