{"title":"Donna Masini","description":"\u003cp\u003eDonna Masini's work invites readers into vivid explorations of everyday life, weaving the subtle complexities of personal experience with the textures of the urban landscape. Her writing often captures moments of quiet revelation, where the ordinary reveals its depth and significance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in the realm of \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, Masini’s books blend poetic insight with compelling narrative, offering a thoughtful reflection on the human condition. Expect evocative language and a keen emotional intelligence that lingers long after the page is turned.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"did-you-find-everything-you-were-looking-for-by-donna-masini-9781324124191","title":"Did You Find Everything You Were Looking For?","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormally inventive and conversational, the poems, prose poems, lyric essays, and \"notebook entries\" in \u003cem\u003eDid You Find Everything You Were Looking For?\u003c\/em\u003e explore our bewildering, increasingly fragmented lives. Unpredictable and unfailingly curious, Donna Masini—in her most compelling, wide-ranging book yet—moves from elegy and intimate address to exuberant performance and meditations on mortality and time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese poems are rooted in the everyday: the supermarket line, dentist's office, DMV, or pain relief aisle. Here erupt sudden spiritual questions: What are we without memory? Are clams happy? What is happiness? This moving, irreverent, and surprisingly buoyant collection is alert to the ways in which we distract ourselves—erotic fantasy, binge-watching Netflix—and try to make meaning out of these distractions. For all their shifts of mind, for all the human noise, these are poems alive to mystery, to our unexpected moments of beauty, ultimately asking: Why love it all so intensely?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom \"In Cahoots\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur mother knew a lot of people in Cahoots.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe wanted to go there. \u003cem\u003eLook at us,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003emy sister and I screeched, pulling\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ebrown bags over our dull faces,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ewe're in Cahoots!\u003c\/em\u003e Upside down\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ein our spoons, a collusion of roots,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ewe looked into the future—\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ewhich looked a lot like Cahoots.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47650538782956,"sku":"9781324124191","price":67.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781324124191-did-you-find-everything-you-were-looking-for.jpg?v=1779326162"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/donna-masini.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}