The Zoo

By Joanie Mackowski

Book Overview

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."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082295768X
• ISBN13: 9780822957683
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Stunning Work- Vivid Imagery

Mackowski's poetry is alive with creative description and detail. She shows nature in a completely different light. Her poems are both surreal and imaginative.

this is a great book

Joanie Mackowski's "The Zoo" has to be one of the best books of poetry I have ever read. She has a unique talent for describing the little things in life in incredably interesting, and different ways. This book will give you an entirly different perspective on things like ants, aquariums, moles, and cafes. This is a beautifully descriptive book, and I would reccomend it to any poetry fan out there.