{"product_id":"raptures-road","title":"Rapture's Road","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this remarkable second collection, Seán Hewitt describes a journey haunted by love, loss and estrangement - from one of the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e30 under 30 in Ireland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Points to a bright future for Irish poetry'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An exquisitely calm and insightful lyric poet'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMAX PORTER\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Amazing writing of breathtaking power'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e IRVINE WELSH\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFollowing the reciprocal relationship between queer sexuality and the natural world that he explored in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTongues of Fire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA threnody for what is lost, a dance of apocalypse and rebirth, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRapture's Road\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\/pages\u003c\/strong\u003e: paperback \/ 80 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781787334274\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Jonathan Cape\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear\u003c\/strong\u003e: 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seán Hewitt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54627264233805,"sku":"9781787334274","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0016\/9325\/3689\/files\/144358879.jpg?v=1788183564","url":"https:\/\/knygynas.biz\/products\/raptures-road","provider":"Knygynas eureka!","version":"1.0","type":"link"}