Name: View from a Temporary Window
Author: Mackowski, Joanie
ISBN: 9780822960553

Available as an ebook at:
Amazon Kindle
Apple Books
Barnes & Noble Nook
Brytewave (CafeScribe-Follett Higher Ed)
Google Play
Kobo
OverDrive

View from a Temporary Window

by Joanie Mackowski

University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010
eISBN: 978-0-8229-9077-2 | Paper: 978-0-8229-6055-3
Library of Congress Classification PS3613.A2735V54 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6

ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE

ABOUT THIS BOOK

“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

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

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.

REVIEWS

“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

“Joanie Mackowski’s seriously iridescent, recombinant erotics are both delicate and daring. Her great subject—the permeability of self and world—yields oddly composite embodiments; perception and scale are freshly imagined, figured with elegance and an inventiveness that thrills. These are inexhaustible poems, shimmering with amplitude.”
—Alice Fulton

“Joanie Mackowski’s new collection of poetry demonstrates once again her superb combination of formal acuity, imagistic invention, and stylistic bravado. What an exceptional poetic verve there is in these exquisite and delightfully reckless poems! No one writes more passionately from a poetics of altered perspectives—here, the unreal is actual, and the actual is transcendent. Like origami unfolded upon your table, these poems reveal the blueprints of the universe.”
—David St. John

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

Prayer

Portrait

Case Studies in Metamorphosis

View from a Temporary Window

Sunday

The Larger

Under the Shadow

Driving Closer to the Sun

Lightning Eased (Dream)

III

Lingerie Department

Bad Annunciation

Stalemate

Two Blues with Flies

Conversation Pieces

Story

Vision

Fever (ever)-Loop

When I was a dinosaur

Small Talk

Arc

1,080 Photographs of My Nose

Out the Window, Winter, Before Daybreak, in Ohio

Boarding: Hemaris thysbe

Song

Missouri Botanical Garden

After

Walking in the Dark

Lullaby

Acknowledgments

REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE

If you are a student who cannot use this book in printed form, BiblioVault may be able to supply you with an electronic file for alternative access.

Please have the accessibility coordinator at your school fill out this form.

It can take 2-3 weeks for requests to be filled.

See other books on: American | Mackowski, Joanie | Poetry | View
See other titles from University of Pittsburgh Press

Nearby on shelf for American literature / Individual authors / 2001-: