4:30 Movie: Poems [Paperback]

Urgent, varied poems& playful, surprising and sad by turns, or meditative.  A stunning, playful, searing, healing collection that will enlarge the reader and revive something crucial in American poetry. Agile, generous, and often dazzling.& The poems in This is courageous writing, not for what Masini withstood but for how she says it with exquisite dependable skill. Donna Masini is, among other things, an incisive chronicler of grief. Masini has a gift for developing the deep trope. And a great love for her sister. Combine the two, and the result is a brilliantly moving book. The collection speaks earnestly about feeling let down and abandoned, yet feverishly seeks solace in art, finding that Here the weariest / come to rest / in the swirl / of light and time and water. There is so much to admire in Masinis poetry, including a sly humor and a gorgeous lyricism.& [ [These poems] are extraordinaryelectric with anxiety, smart, witty, constantly turning on themselves.& I love this book. The speaker in this driven, headlong collection confronts the terrifying progress of her sisters illness and watches her own mind perform the thousand jittery dances it does to ward off the unthinkable. Reimagining her poems from the ground up, Masini emerges with a voice pressurized and anxious, a music tuned by an ear listening every second for the next alarm. The poems in this new volume are not only Masinis most formally adventurous and inventive, they are also her most compelling.& There is a new gravitas in these poems, which, when combined with her formal intelligence, makes the poetry quite dazzling.&