Annal:2003 Kate Tufts Discovery Award
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Results of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award in the year 2003. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2003 Kate Tufts winner
- Score: 10.53
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. Mackowski’s practical metaphysics and desperate wit puzzle the boundary between essence and ornament, revelation and disguise, reason and the loss of it.
