Rapture
by Carol Ann Duffy
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Read in June, 2008
"Rapture" is an intense, intimate, wonderful collection of poems which work rather like a "concept album", having a common theme - a plot almost - that traces the course of a relationship from the first moments, when the mobile is tended "like an injured bird", through the blossoming of new love, the hopes of marriage (I'll wear your ring, your ring, I'll dance and sing"), then the realisation of break-down("love's spinster twin")and finally grief(&qu...more
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Read in December, 2006
I finished this quite a few days ago, but I neglected to write a review until now. Therefore, what I'm about to say has been mediated greatly by the passage of time; my review, then, in a way is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollected in tranquility, to quote my good friend William Wordsworth. In other words, I felt much stronger about the book as I read it; in fact, when I finished it, I was convinced it was my New Favorite Thing. A bit of time has passed, and my feelings have...more
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Read in November, 2008
recommends it for:
Poetry Lovers
It's a story told in poetry; follow the lines of love through her beautiful verbal captures.
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Read in October, 2007
Lovely. My favourite is "Art". So many of them are beautiful, though. One of my favourite lines of poetry is from "Hours": "Time hates love, wants love poor,/but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw."
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