View from a Temporary Window (Pitt Poetry Series)

Joanie Mackowski

ISBN 10: 0822960559 / ISBN 13: 9780822960553

Published by University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010

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Joanie Mackowski's hypnotizing "View from a Temporary Window" is filled with Kafka-like transformations and metamorphoses and haunted by a sense of the body's strangeness. She writes in a relaxed and lucid manner that pays scrupulous attention to both the imaginary and the real, and to what is uncanny in each. John L. Koethe" Series: Pitt Poetry Series. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 228 x 6. Weight in Grams: 122. . 2010. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: View from a Temporary Window (Pitt Poetry Series)
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822960559
• ISBN 13: 9780822960553
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

“Joanie Mackowski's hypnotizing View from a Temporary Window is filled with Kafka-like transformations and metamorphoses and haunted by a sense of the body's strangeness. She writes in a relaxed and lucid manner that pays scrupulous attention to both the imaginary and the real, and to what is uncanny in each.”―John L. Koethe

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.