這本詩集以著名——以及臭名昭著——男性人物的妻子、姐妹或女友的視角，以令人嘆為觀止的原創和縈繞心頭的聲音，展現了邁達斯夫人、金剛女王和弗洛伊德夫人，更不用說魔鬼的妻子本人，其智慧、想像力和敏銳的洞察力令人嘆為觀止。卡羅爾·安·達菲是一位大師，她善於從神話和歷史中汲取靈感，然後以生動而出人意料的方式對其進行顛覆，創作出既有過去魅力又有當代活力的詩歌。
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 girlfris 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.
