The effortless virtuosity, drama and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy's verse have made her our most admired contemporary poet. Rapture, her seventh collection, 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, rancour, separation and grief - as either redemptive or destructive.
Rapture is a map of real love, in all its churning complexity; simultaneously direct and subtle, 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.
Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow and now lives in Manchester. She has written for both children and adults, and her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread and Forward Prizes, as well as the Lannan Award and the EM Forster Prize in America; The World's Wife was shortlisted for both the 1999 Forward Prize and the TS Eliot Prize. Rapture is Duffy's seventh major collection.
ISBN:
9780330433914
Binding:
Paperback
Pub. Date:
24/08/2006
Category:
Poetry
Imprint:
Picador
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100 page/s
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101 Poems for Children A Laureate's Choice
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Answering Back
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Bethlehem
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Hand in Hand An Anthology of Love Poems
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Love Poems
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Mean Time
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New Selected Poems 1984-2004
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New Selected Poems 1984-2004
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Rapture
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The Bees
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The Bees
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The Other Country
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The World's Wife
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To the Moon An Anthology of Lunar Poems
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