<DIV>?Joanie Mackowski's hypnotizing <I>View from a Temporary Window</I> 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</DIV>