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Rapture (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780865478862)
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Carol Ann Duffy
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xWinner 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.Author: Carol Ann Duffy
ISBN-10: 0865478864
ISBN-13: 9780865478862
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Language: English
Published: 03/12/2013
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.24lbs
Size: 8.21h x 5.57w x 0.21d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 04/14/2013 pg. 12
By Carol Ann Duffy
xCarol Ann Duffy is the author of several volumes of poetry, including The World's Wife, Rapture, as well as edited poetry collections and books for children. She has received, among other honors, the Forward Prize, the Whitbread Poetry Award, the Lannan Award, and the E. M. Forster Prize for her work. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Duffy lives in Manchester, England, and is currently Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University.
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