The Zoo

This collection of poetry, Joanie Mackowski's first, is meditative, vivid and sometimes weird. Turning an idiosyncratic eye to the inhabitants of zoos and fish tanks, cafes and cemetaries, the poet illuminates details that make the familiar seem strange.

About the author

Joanie Mackowski is assistant professor of English at Cornell University and author of the poetry collection The Zoo. Her awards include the Emily Dickinson Prize from the Poetry Society of America, the Associated Writing Programs Award in Poetry, the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Grant, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship. Mackowski's poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry 2007 and 2009, the Yale Review, Poetry, the American Scholar, New England Review, Raritan, Southwest Review, the Kenyon Review, and other journals.

Summary

Selected by Li-Young Lee as the Winner of the 2000 Associated Writing Programs' Award Series in Poetry, this debut collection of poems illuminates details that make the familiar seem strange. Winner of the 2002 Kate Tufts Discovery Award from Claremont Graduate University.

Product details

• Authors: Joanie Mackowski
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.12.2001
• EAN: 9780822957683
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-5768-3
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 208 mm x 6 mm
• Weight: 118 g
• Series: Pitt Poetry (Paperback); Pitt Poetry Series; Pitt Poetry; Pitt Poetry Series
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama