Rapture: Poems

Rapture: Poems

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<p><b>Winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize, "essential reading for the broken-hearted of all ages" (<i>The Guardian</i>)</b><br><b></b><br><b></b>The effortless virtuosity, drama, and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy's verse have made her much admired among contemporary poets. <i>Rapture </i>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.</p>