Multitudes

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"Alphabetic dismantling, syntactic play, essaying words backwards and 4words (as she might say), Christakos manifests forensic clarity and telegraphic fortitude in this unsettling work."Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Revelling in the value of social polyphony from Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself," Multitudes looks at its contemporary theatres of Facebook and Twitter, post-riot police surveillance, protest culture and poetry itself. With wit, perceptiveness and her trademark linguistic sonar, Margaret Christakos keenly examines intimacies and banishments, as well as intergenerational grief, self-display and social hope.

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"Alphabetic dismantling, syntactic play, essaying words backwards and 4words (as she might say), Christakos manifests forensice clarity and telegraphic fortitude in this unsettling work." -- Rachel Blau DuPlessis [on Multitudes] "Stirring both emotionally and in a bold experimentalism." -- Winnipeg Free Press [on What Stirs] "Is Margaret Christakos the love child of David Cronenberg and the queen of the confessional poets, Sharon Olds ... Much of this writing shocks for its originality." -- Georgia Straight [on Sooner]

Author Bio

Margaret Christakos: Margaret Christakos is the award-winning author of eight acclaimed poetry collections and a novel, Charisma, shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award. She teaches creative writing and runs 'Influency: A Toronto Poetry Salon' at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies. Her recent collection, What Stirs, was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award.