{"product_id":"did-you-find-everything-you-were-looking-for-poems-9781324124191","title":"Did You Find Everything You Were Looking For?: Poems","description":"\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\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\u003cp\u003eFrom \"In Cahoots\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur mother knew a lot of people in Cahoots.\u003cbr\u003e We wanted to go there. \u003cem\u003eLook at us, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emy sister and I screeched, pulling\u003cbr\u003e brown bags over our dull faces, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003ewe're in Cahoots!\u003c\/em\u003e Upside down\u003cbr\u003e in our spoons, a collusion of roots, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewe looked into the future--\u003cbr\u003e which looked a lot like Cahoots.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Donna Masini\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/12\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.53h x 6.35w x 0.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324124191\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMasini, Donna:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eDonna Masini\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of a novel and four poetry collections, most recently \u003cem\u003eDid You Find Everything You Were Looking For?\u003c\/em\u003e Her awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. She teaches at Hunter College and lives in New York City.","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Donna Masini \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":48311269130397,"sku":"9781324124191","price":33.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_99d1a5e7-d0d0-48aa-a274-2c1c4becaacd.jpg?v=1779260124","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/did-you-find-everything-you-were-looking-for-poems-9781324124191","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}