"Rapture of the Deep is highly accomplished poetry by internationally acclaimed and award winning poet Anne Szumigalski. In her first solo collection in five years, Szumigalski pushes the prose poem to the extreme. In her 'texts' filled with vivid colours and images of what lies beneath the layer of reality and ordinary life, she explores memories of childhood and the world of dreams and myths. Szumigalski blends secular and sacred themes in poems that are wonderfully lyrical and fearlessly innovative." -- from back cover.