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Love Poems (2010)

by Carol Ann Duffy(Favorite Author)

4.28 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0330512714 (ISBN13: 9780330512718)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Picador USA

review 1: In Love Poems, you will find a selection of fabulous Duffy poems dealing with matters of the heart. The poems are collected from Selling Manhattan, The Other Country, Mean Time, The World's Wife, Feminine Gospels, Rapture and The Bees. A great mix and quite a few favourites. Duffy is a poet who I have always felt strongly about ever since I was introduced to her work, she can take a single action like making a cup of tea and understand the context, history and emotion behind that single action. Whilst, The World's Wife will always be my favourite collection; Love Poems was a well-received Valentine's gift and I have no doubt that I will be dipping in and out of this one for many years to come.
review 2: “Till his name was no longer a certain spellfor his face... more. The last hair on his headfloated out from a book. His scent went from the house.The will was read. See, he was vanishingto the small zero held by the gold of my ring.” — Mrs Lazarus by Carol Ann DuffyI’m never very eloquent went reviewing a collection of poetry. I’m good at talking about each poem separately, just not as a whole. Anyway, here it goes.I love this anthology. It’s a collection of what are arguably Carol Ann Duffy’s most famous love poems, from several of her previous collections. I’ve read some of her work before, and liked it, but I didn’t have a collection of hers and when I saw this I just had to have it. The language is raw, beautiful and modern. The scope for intertextual references is enormous. Take the poem from the extract I quote above. Mrs Lazarus immediately brings Sylvia Plath’s Lady Lazarus to mind. The poems are completely different, both in language and in content. Duffy’s poem is about regaining one’s self after a husband’s death, while Plath’s touches on topics such as suicide, suffocation in one’s surroundings and guilt. But when one has Plath’s poem first, it compliments the reading of Mrs Lazarus so well. The lines ebb and flow together.The collection is slim — just over fifty pages — but full of quality content. I just hope that being assigned Poet Laureate doesn’t slow down her writing. less

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