The Zoo

Joanie Mackowski's debut collection of poetry is meditative, vivid, sometimes weird. Turning an idiosyncratic eye to the inhabitants of zoos and fish tanks, cafes and cemeteries, she illuminates details that make the familiar seem strange. An egret stands "still as a glass of milk"; iceberg lettuce is a "vegetable leviathan" that "extends beneath the dinner table / an unseen, monstrous green"; a bald eagle may "love a jet?-- / or worship them all, or mock them, rigid / freaks that never linger."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 12/06/2001
ISBN: 9780822957683
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 8.20h x 6.04w x 0.24d

Review Citations: PW Notes and Reprints 11/19/2001 pg. 65
Library Journal 02/01/2002 pg. 106
Foreword 03/01/2002 pg. 65