Poetry. EXCESSIVE LOVE PROSTHESES takes the confessional lyric poem and runs it through Kathy Acker's Cuisinart. In these pages, Margaret Christakos shapes a sensory surfeitry of pornography, cautionary nursery rhymes, mothering, bisexuality and the paradoxes of feminism into a series of poignant analogies for contemporary obsessions and ailments. The result is a near-ecstatic tribute to the hyper-embodied intelligence of a new millennial subject. Christakos's other collections include Other Words for Grace, The Moment Coming and Wipe Under a Love. Her novel Charisma was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award in 2001. She lives in Toronto.

Margaret Christakos is the award-winning author of six 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 most recent collection, Sooner was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award.