View from a Temporary Window

ISBN 0822960559   Pages 64 ISBN13 9780822960553 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 122 Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press   Published in Pittsburgh PA Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press   Series title Pitt Poetry Series Format Paperback   Height (mm) 152 Publication date 15 Jan 2010   Width (mm) 228 DEWEY 811.6   Spine width (mm) 6 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level General

		Prayer		3
		Portrait		4
		Case Studies in Metamorphosis		6
		View from a Temporary Window		12
		Sunday		15
		The Larger		17
		Under the Shadow		19
		Driving Closer to the Sun		21
		Lightning Eased (Dream)		23
		Lingerie Department		27
		Bad Annunciation		29
		Stalemate		31
		Two Blues with Flies		32
		Conversation Pieces		34
		Story		40
		Vision		43
		Fever (ever)-Loop		44
		When I was a dinosaur		45
		Small Talk		46
		Arc		47
		1,080 Photographs of My Nose		48
		Out the Window, Winter, Before Daybreak, in Ohio		49
		Boarding: Hemaris thysbe		50
		Song		53
		Missouri Botanical Garden		55
		After		57
		Walking in the Dark		58
		Lullaby		61
		Acknowledgments		63

"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"

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