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Rapture Paperback – April 22, 1992

by Susan Mitchell (Author)
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Rapture is the newest collection from a remarkable voice in American poetry. Susan Mitchell's poems are about self-discovery, and how memory and experience blend to lead us to newer, more realized and complex selves. Mitchell's gift is her ability to see, with humor and acuity, the extraordinary within the commonplace. Whether listening to a jazz pianist reaching for new sounds as he lingers over a hotel piano or recalling a runaway child on a bus trip across America, Mitchell guides us into a world of her narratives, a world in which she creates her reality by the mere act of observing it, and this reality, at once wholly unique and deeply familiar, has an exhilarating capacity for transcendence. Combining a boldly realistic vision with graceful, evocative lyricism, and moving easily between free verse and elegant versification, Rapture confirms Mitchell's place as one of the most compelling poets writing today.
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    96 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publication date
    April 22, 1992
  4. Dimensions
    9.23 x 6.1 x 0.35 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    0060969067
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0060969066
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"Susan Mitchell's "Rapture" reinforces one's faith in the power of poetry to evoke the mystery, beauty, and terror of existence. Her art is the product of a first-class mind, in love with memory and language, enriched by myth and science, fastidious about particulars, and ever-inquiring. In their brilliant and sometimes erotic nervosity these poems are at once subtle and sensuous, dark and luminous, painful and exalted." -- Stanley Kunitz"Susan Mitchell's poems are both subtle and passionate. At their best they set up a kind of centripetal rhetorical field into which casual idiom and arcane allusion are irresistible drawn. So (I should add) is the reader." -- James Merill

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Rapture is the newest collection from a remarkable voice in American poetry. Susan Mitchell's poems are about self-discovery, and how memory and experience blend to lead us to newer, more realized and complex selves. Mitchell's gift is her ability to see, with humor and acuity, the extraordinary within the commonplace. Whether listening to a jazz pianist reaching for new sounds as he lingers over a hotel piano or recalling a runaway child on a bus trip across America, Mitchell guides us into the world of her narratives, a world in which she creates her reality by the mere act of observing it, and this reality, at once wholly unique and deeply familiar, has an exhilarating capacity for transcendence. Combining a boldly realistic vision with graceful, evocative lyricism, and moving easily between free verse and elegant versification, Rapture confirms Mitchell's place as one of the most compelling poets writing today.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper Perennial; 1st edition (April 22, 1992)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0060969067
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0060969066
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.23 x 6.1 x 0.35 inches
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1.0 out of 5 stars I bought this thinking it was something else, and ...
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I bought this thinking it was something else, and I threw it away.
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Among the best books poetry over the last thirty years ...
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5.0 out of 5 stars The reviews on this book are somehow reviews for an entirely different book by an entirely different person!
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2017
All of these reviews are clearly for a book by Susan Minot. An entirely different book and more obviously an entirely different person. Susan MITCHELL's Rapture is an elegant and profoundly insightful look into life experiences that somehow tell us more about the world than we were previously willing to consider. The poems in this book are both funny and harrowing, full of joy and sadness; there is no small amount of delight for any reader in Mitchell's books.
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patsy
5.0 out of 5 stars Be sure it's the correct book.
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2017
This is a book of poetry. Be certain you have the correct book. It's not a novel by Susan Minot.
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MF
5.0 out of 5 stars Top-notch
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2017
Susan Mitchell's second book is one of the best poetry books of the 90s and still feels fresh and exciting today.
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JL
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful
Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2017
This was an outstanding book of poetry. One of my favorites. Beautifully written.
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Jessica Ramer
5.0 out of 5 stars A first-rate Collection of Poetry
Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2015
I have just re-read this book for the first time in more than a decade. Now, as then, a remain moved by the lyric beauty, the passion, and the skillful story-telling. Mitchell manages to convey love and ambivalence with power and without sentimentality. I recommend it highly.
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