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Duffy draws on a rich tapestry of sources to create her Feminine Gospels —including the historical, the archetypal, the biblical, and the fantastical—to forge new visions and revisions of female identity. The collection ranges from the imagined sadness of , reflecting on her long and powerful but lonely life, to the modern travails of a woman whose work is "literally never done" feeding her endless offspring. As the publisher's summary notes, "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".

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