The Zoo

by Joanie Mackowski

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."

Genres: Poetry

80 pages, Paperback

First published December 6, 2001

Reviews

[Lesley · Rating 5 out of 5]

She channels Moore...