<DIV><DIV>The effortless virtuosity, drama and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy's verse have made her our most admired contemporary poet. <I>Rapture</I>, 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, rancor, separation, and grief?as either redemptive or destructive. <I>Rapture</I> 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.</DIV></DIV>