Feminine Gospels

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She taught writing and literature for fifteen years at the University of Colorado, Denver, and Regis Jesuit University. Simultaneously stripping women bare and revealing them in all their guises and disguises, these poems tell tall stories as though they were true confessions, and spin modern myths from real women seen in every aspect – as bodies and corpses, writers and workers, shoppers and slimmers, fairytale royals or girls-next-door. The good news is you can buy them on The Feminist Bookshop audiobooks page! From verbal nuances to mind-expanding imaginative leaps, her words seem freshly plucked from the minds of non-poets - that is, she makes it look easy' Charlotte Mendelson, Observer " --Jeremy Harrington, publisher, St. In Feminine Gospels, Carol Ann Duffy draws on the historical, the archetypal, the biblical and the fantastical to create various visions - and revisions - of female identity. I have. Anthony Messenger and Catechumenate.

• A shepherdess who raced to the manger
• A pregnant teen who stood at the foot of a cross
• The bride who saw a guest turn water into wine
• The waitress who served an extraordinary supper in an upper room
• A mother who cooked seven loaves and fishes for her son