Rapture
A sequence of love poems that moves from desire to loss, capturing intimacy, rupture, and the emotional aftershocks of a relationship.
Work Information
A single sustained voice traces the rise and fading of love.
Rapture is a sequence of poems that ties together intimacy, desire, separation, and the possibility of recovery. It renders changes in feeling through a highly musical lyrical voice.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Picador
- Published
- 2005-12-30
- Pages
- 62 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 12.7 x 1.27 x 19.69 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780330412803
- ISBN-10
- 0330412809
- Price
- 1093 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/British
The effortless virtuosity, directness, drama and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy's verse have made her our most admired and best-loved 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 that Duffy refuses to simplify the contradictions of love, and read its transformations - infatuation, longing, passion, commitment, rancour, separation and grief - as simply redemptive or destructive. "Rapture" is a map of real love, in all its churning complexity. Yet in showing us that a song can be made of even the most painful episodes in our lives, Duffy has accessed a new level of directness that sacrifices nothing in the way of subtlety of expression. These are poems that will find deep rhymes in the experience of most readers, and nowhere has Duffy more eloquently articulated her belief that poetry should speak for us all.
Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread, Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. She was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 2009 to 2019. Her many collections include Mean Time , Love Poems and The Bees , which won the Costa Poetry Award. Her writing for children includes Queen Munch and Queen Nibble, The Skipping-Rope Snake and The Tear Thief . She was made a DBE in the 2015 New Year Honours list. In 2021, she was awarded the international lifetime achievement award the Golden Wreath for her achievements in poetry.
Reviews
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amazing
I've never read a volume of poetry from cover to cover, not until "Rapture." The poems in "Rapture" are about love, and they are sensual, intimate and heartbreaking. The poems trace the arch of a relationship from newly in to falling out, all with a frank, unflinching eye. The language is arresting, with lines like "Falling in love is glamourous hell..." (from "You") or "The night is empathy, stars in its eyes for tears..." (from "Love"). Carol Ann Duffy became Britain's first female poet laureate, and she thoroughly deserves it.
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An interesting read.
Worth reading twice over, a modern love story. Some lines stand out as being unforgettable. Would recommend for the modern romantic.
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Five Stars
She is a wonderful and powerfull author
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Become enraptured with Rapture...
RAPTURE by Carol Ann Duffy is simply a beautiful collection of poetry. The over-reaching theme is that of love, but as the back cover explains, "Rapture is a map of real love, in all its churning complexity". From the very first poem, "You", the reader is able to detect that this set of love poems will pack a punch if necessary. While the appealing, gentle side of falling in love is recognised, so too is the horrible side to love - the side which can torture a person's soul. As Duffy so eloquently says, "Falling in love / is glamorous hell". To me, this is just what love poetry should be. Showing us both the sides of what it is to fall in love with someone and to be loved by someone. It can raise you up and it can dash you back down again. Duffy has also recognised that love changes over the course of a relationship - the opening poem describes how a loved one comes into our life and changes it; they offer up themselves as a "touchable dream" to us, with all the possibilities that brings. There is also the exploration of how our actions can make us feel absurd, as we search for the "small xx" in a text message. And, of course, how even their name can take on a different meaning to us:- "When did your name / change from a proper noun / to a charm?" What Duffy has created with RAPTURE is a book-length love poem. Regardless of where you may be in your personal love journey, there will be many poems that will speak to you within this gorgeous collection. If you love truly, and deeply, your heart will have been exposed to the potential of hurt, but also to the possibility of rapture. Here, Duffy shows us this. This particular edition of RAPTURE is also worthy of mention. It is beautifully created - the red of the cover set with the silver writing and cover design give it a magical, romantic feel. It is definitely a book that you can either treasure yourself or offer as a gift to someone else. Personally, I shall treasure this book. And maybe one day I shall find that special someone that I can share it with them.
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Five Stars
Excellent
Related Literary Awards
- T. S. Eliot Prize Edition 13 (2005) ・Winner