The Zoo (Pitt Poetry Series)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 6x0x8. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author on title page with inscription, "27 Oct 14 Thank you for ___ ___! Wishing you joy!". 2002 Soft Cover. 65 pp. 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 (truncated) green"; a bald eagle may "love a jet'― / or worship them all, or mock them, rigid / freaks that never linger. (Inventory #: 2344582)