4:30 Movie - Poems

In poems that are by turns intimate and wild, provocative and tender, award-winning poet Donna Masini explores personal loss, global violence and the consolations of art. She brings her wit, grief, fury and propulsive energy to bear on the preoccupations of our daily lives and our attempts to bargain with endings of every kind. Equal parts lament and praise, 4:30 Movie is fuelled by despair and humour, governed by the ways in which movies enter our imaginations and frame our experiences. The movie theater becomes a presiding metaphor: part waiting room, part childhood, part underground depths where the self is a bit player, riding the subway with "its engine of extras". Masini's exquisite wordplay shows the mind wrestling ferociously to forestall grief, as if finding the right words might somehow allow us to extend our beautiful, foreshortened run.

About the author

Donna Masini is the author of a novel and three poetry collections, most recently 4:30 Movie. Her awards include a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. She teaches at Hunter College and lives in New York City.

Summary

In highly charged, dazzling language, 4:30 Movie explores a sister’s death and the ways movies shape our imaginations.

Product details

• Authors: Donna Masini, Masini Donna
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.02.2020
• EAN: 9780393357004
• ISBN: 978-0-393-35700-4
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 211 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 95 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / American / General, POETRY / Women Authors, Poetry by individual poets, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), death;grief;personal loss;poetry;sister