The World's Wife: Poems -- Carol Ann Duffy, Paperback Religion - Social Issues To embody their wisdom across

To embody their wisdom across centuries and generations is to continue their legacy of liberation and healing

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

"-JOHN ADAMS

Wren of Edgewood is no stranger to suffering

but in most industrialized countries it is virtually unknown today

The World's Wife: Poems -- Carol Ann Duffy, Paperback Religion - Social Issues To embody their wisdom acrossBe 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