| Turning to Fiction: Poems Contributor(s): Masini, Donna (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393328449 ISBN-13: 9780393328448 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $17.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2006 Annotation: Daring and witty, erotic and searching, these poems explore the ways we suffer and are changed by our losses. "Think about sex," this book begins, then moves through the places into which our longings lead us. Here are confessions whispered over the phone in "Phone Sex," sins recounted to priests, "pretend confessions" told to a sister. Here are poems about a mother teaching a daughter to read, a girl trying to read her mother, a woman trying to read lovers, and marriage, and herself. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| Physical Information: 0.36" H x 5.6" W x 8.28" (0.35 lbs) 114 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Think about sex, this book begins, then moves through the places into which our longings lead us. Here are confessions whispered over the phone in Phone Sex, sins recounted to priests, pretend confessions told to a sister. Here are poems about a mother teaching a daughter to read, a girl trying to read her mother, a woman trying to read lovers, and marriage, and herself. |
Contributor Bio(s): Masini, Donna: - 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. |