That Kind of Danger

by Donna Masini

Book Overview

Winner of the 1993 Barnard New Women Poets Prize.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807068233
• ISBN13: 9780807068236
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

a new book for respectors of the classics

Ms. Masini's book is dense and honest. Each word and line is exactly sculpted to open up a kalidescope view of being a woman, being working class and being a New Yorker. She shocks the reader with her forceful courage in every poem. She is the classic New York writer. Don't expect to finish reading even one poem without discovering a dark and sordid corner of yourself you haven't yet exposed to the sun. Her poems are crafted with old school expertness. There are no errors; only quivering, precise rockets.

excellent,vibrant poetry

Donna Masini is truly gifted. Her fine novel, "About Yvonne" led me to her poetry. You don't have to be anything like Masini to enjoy Masini. She's that good. Hoping to own and entire shelf of Masini books one day...

A free fall into a fiery furnace of the feminine

Masini addresses poet/city, daughter/mother, child/family, child/history, woman/father, wife/husband, woman/lovers in language and vision that recall Whitman and Ginsberg. There's a Catholic nervousness, an urban beat, a dance-floor energy pervading these poems. There are shocking moments when the specificity of another's life throws a mirror in front of the glory and the wreckage of your own. You'll feel your heart beat, your blood quicken, your sex tingle, your soul cry out. A primer on passion, on doubt, on poetry. The language is astonishing. From this springboard, Masini leaps into fiction and the result, her novel About Yvonne, is like Dylan going electric. Read her and weep, and laugh, and dance, and whatever else you do when your conscience and your psyche explode.