The World's Wife
Auteur
- Carol Ann Duffy (Écrivain)
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Classement en biblio - 4 lecteurs
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Medusa
A suspicion, a doubt, a jealousy
Grew in my mind,
Which turned the hairs on my head to filthy snakes
As though my thoughts
Hissed and spat on my scalp.
My bride’s breath soured, stank
In the grey bags of my lungs.
I’m foul mouthed now, foul tongued,
Yellow fanged.
There are bullet tears in my eyes.
Are you terrified?
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 be for me if you were stone.
I glanced at a buzzing bee,
A dull grey pebble fell
To the ground.
I glanced at a singing bird,
A handful of dusty gravel
Spattered down.
I looked at a ginger cat,
A housebrick
Shattered a bowl of milk.
I looked at a snuffling pig,
A boulder rolled
In a heap of shit.
I stared in the mirror.
Love gone bad
Showed me a Gorgon.
I stared at a dragon.
Fire spewed
From the mouth of a mountain.
And here you come
With a shield for a heart
And a sword for a tongue
And your girls, your girls.
Wasn’t I beautiful
Wasn’t I fragrant and young?
Look at me now.
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Recueil de poésie en anglais, se basant sur des contes revus par les yeux d'autres personnages. Très original et bien écrit, c'est agréable d'avoir un point de vue différent de ces histoires qui ont bercé notre enfance.
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The World's Wife
- France : 2017-07-13 - Poche (Français)
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Résumé
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.
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