Feminine Gospels: Poems

Carol Ann Duffy. Faber & Faber, $22 (80pp) ISBN 978-0-571-21187-6

In preaching Feminine Gospels, Manchester, U.K.-based poet Carol Ann Duffy creates speakers to articulate ""The Diet,"" ""The Woman Who Shopped,"" ""The Laughter of Swofford Girls High"" and a woman ""dreaming/ till the stars are blue in the face/ printing the news of their old light.""

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