4:30 Movie

by Donna Masini

Overview

“Urgent, varied poems… playful, surprising and sad by turns, or meditative.” —Washington Post

“The overarching metaphors of film and movie-going appear gracefully” (Lauren Kane, Paris Review) in the poems of 4:30 Movie—by turns intimate and wild, provocative and tender. Award-winning poet Donna Masini explores personal loss, global violence, the preoccupations of our daily lives, and the consolations of art as she brings her wit, grief, fury, and propulsive energy to bear on our attempts to bargain with endings of every kind.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393635515
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	05/29/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	80
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Donna Masini is the author of three collections of poetry and a novel. She was awarded the Barnard Women Poets Prize, a Pushcart Prize, a fellowship with the New York Foundation for the Arts, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches at Hunter College and lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

(Deleted Scene: Worry) 13

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The Lights Go Down at the Angelika 17

Waiting Room 18

Mind Screen 19

Pronoun Problem 20

Tracking Shot: Subway (Interior) 21

Watching the Six-Part Pride and Prejudice, Mid-Chemo, with My Sister 22

What Didn't Work 23

The Extra 24

A Fable 27

Anxieties 28

Hell 30

(Deleted Scene: Diagnosis) 32

The Port 33

Movie 34

Storylines 37

"Gone Girl" 38

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Water Lilies 41

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(Deleted Scene: Bargaining) 53

Woman on Cell Phone Dragging an Empty Cart Through Washington Square Park 54

Point-of-View Shot: Celeriac 55

Trying to Understand Irony 56

My Child 57

Tracking Shot: Subway Lines 58

The Blob 59

Split Screen 61

Migraine 62

(Deleted Scene: Last Day) 63

Revolve 64

Scary Movie 65

Washing Her Hair 66

A Gate 67

(Deleted Scene: Last Day) 68

Elegy for a Church-Key 69

Trailer 70

Marginalia 72

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Bird-Watching 75

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Notes 79

Editorial Reviews

"Truly inspired…4:30 Movie is a stunning, playful, searing, healing collection that will enlarge the reader and revive something crucial in American poetry."

Tracy K. Smith

"4:30 Movie is a fiercely energetic collection, thematically and formally unified…The intensity of this book is something new, as the speaker confronts the terrifying and unstoppable progress of her sister’s illness, and watches her own grief, the gestures she makes to try to ward off fear and loss, and her own distractibility…Formally, Masini has reimagined the way her poems work, and the results are thrilling, and often startling."

Mark Doty

"The poems in this new volume are not only Masini’s most formally adventurous and inventive, they are also her most compelling…4:30 Movie has the hallmarks of a capstone work."

Lynn Emanuel

"[These poems] are extraordinary—electric with anxiety, smart, witty, constantly turning on themselves…I love this book."

Marie Howe