Rapture: Poems

By Carol Ann Duffy

Book Overview

Winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize, "essential reading for the broken-hearted of all ages" ( The Guardian ) The effortless virtuosity, drama, and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy's verse have made her much admired among contemporary poets. Rapture is a book-length love poem and a moving act of personal testimony. But what sets these poems apart from other treatments of the subject is Duffy's refusal to simplify the contradictions of love and read its transformations-infatuation, longing, passion, commitment, rancor, separation, and grief-as either redemptive or destructive. This is a map of real love in all its churning complexity, simultaneously direct and subtle, showing us that a song can be made of even the most painful episodes in our lives. With poems that will find deep resonance in the experience of most readers, it is a collection that can and does speak for us all.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865478864
• ISBN13: 9780865478862
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.6" x 8.2"