{"product_id":"9781787334274","title":"Rapture's Road","description":"Author: Hewitt, Seán \u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781787334274 \u003cbr\u003ePublisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK \u003cbr\u003eYear First Published: 2024 \u003cbr\u003ePages: 80 \u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 196mm x 131mm x 8mm \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this remarkable second collection, Sean Hewitt describes a journey haunted by love, loss and estrangement - from one of the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e 30 under 30 in Ireland\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this remarkable second collection, Sean Hewitt describes a journey haunted by love, loss and estrangement - from one of the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e 30 under 30 in Ireland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Hewitt's words penetrate with Nerudian passion and force'\u003c\/b\u003e GUARDIAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An exquisitely calm and insightful lyric poet' \u003c\/b\u003eMAX PORTER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the mind wanders and becomes spectral, these poems forge their own unique path through the landscape. The road Hewitt takes us on is a sleepwalk into the nightwoods, a dream-state where nature is by turns regenerated and broken, and where the split self of the speaker is interrupted by a series of ghosts, memories and encounters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing the reciprocal relationship between queer sexuality and the natural world that he explored in \u003ci\u003eTongues of Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, the poet conjures us here into a trance- a deep delirium of hypnotic, hectic rapture where everything is called into question, until a union is finally achieved - a union in nature, with nature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA threnody for what is lost, a dance of apocalypse and rebirth, \u003ci\u003eRapture's Road \u003c\/i\u003edraws us through what is hidden, secret, often forbidden, to a state of ecstasy. It leads into the humid night, through lethal love and grief, and glimpses, at the end of the journey, a place of tenderness and reawakening.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45496628412574,"sku":"UBD-9781787334274","price":32.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781787334274.jpg?v=1748232705","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781787334274","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}