That kind of danger / Donna Masini ; with an introduction by Mona Van Duyn.

Author
Masini, Donna [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Boston : Beacon Press, [1994]
  • ©1994
Description
xvi, 106 pages ; 23 cm.

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    Series
    Barnard new women poets series [More in this series]
    Summary note
    • Stark and sensual, energetic and intimate, That Kind of Danger explores the dangers, histories, and passions of the life of the city - from its violences to its surprising occasions of beauty. Donna Masini writes frankly, sometimes painfully, about sex, about working-class roots and immigrant experience, about the dangers and failures of family life, the architecture of desire, the dynamics of our erotic lives.
    • With a driving music and often startling power, these poems are about the way lives are broken and rebuilt, the layers of history we are often oblivious to, the redemptive and transforming power of memory and imagination. Urgent, unwavering, this provocative debut volume ultimately celebrates the tentative yet joyful moments of transcendence and grace that seeing and naming render possible.
    Contents
    • Giants in the Earth
    • Woman to Woman
    • Nights My Father
    • Home
    • What Drives Her
    • Familiar
    • Looks That Kill
    • Eye of the Skull
    • At the Bandshell by the River
    • Who Giveth This Woman
    • Hunger
    • That White Sustenance
    • Before the Bridge: A Story
    • Nightscape
    • Sleep and Marriage
    • Easter on Staten Island
    • Wheel of Fortune
    • Winter-Seeming Summer
    • Beauty
    • Caul
    • Learning to See
    • At the Exhibit of Peter Hujar's Photographs, Grey Art Gallery, NYC, 1990
    • Girl, Gingerpot, Tree
    • Today for the First Time I Listen
    • Getting Out of Where We Came From
    • Learning to Swim
    • My Mother Makes Me a Geisha Girl
    • City Lives
    • Claim
    • Early Morning Window
    • Scared Hearts and Tar
    • Elements of Passion
    • Bewilder
    • Moving In and Moving Up
    • Diorama
    • Bridges
    • Prayer
    • For My Husband Sleeping Alone
    • When I Understood
    • The Sky Could Send You.
    ISBN
    • 0807068225 ((cl))
    • 9780807068229 ((cl))
    • 0807068233 ((pa))
    • 9780807068236 ((pa))
    LCCN
    93036956
    OCLC
    28927458
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