1st printing. 12mo. Wrappers. pp.106, [vi] (blank). Published as Sun & Moon Classics: 30, with a cover photograph by Seton Smith. Very Good, slightly spotted to the edges (primarily the head edge), the pink on the spine perhaps a little faded (not affecting legibility).

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Title: Defensive Rapture
Publisher: Sun & Moon Press, Los Angeles, CA
Publication Date: 1993
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1557130329
ISBN 13: 9781557130327
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good

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Barbara Guest's poems, 1993.

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Religious fundamentalists sometimes use the term rapture in reference to an instantaneous bonding of the faithful to God. The "rapture" in Guest's title also refers to a kind of transcendentalism, pushing the reader into the spiritual and metaphysical possibilities of language itself. Guest's poems are never "about" a subject so much as they are about the way language veils and unveils every subject it touches. "Borrowed Mirror, Filmic Rise" is a typical poem in that it deals with visual perception (mirrors and film) and the way words paradoxically illustrate and obfuscate something as simple as evening rain: "from borrowed mirror/ rain a seized and/ crystal pruner the limned/ and eyed cowl/ eyedusk." In a poem on music, she says, "sound opens sound," as if to describe the semantic ripples of her own work. A fascinating if difficult work; recommended for larger collections.
- Daniel L. Guillory, Millikin Univ., Decatur, Ill.
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