Poetry. Following on her collections EXCESSIVE LOVE PROSTHESES and SOONER, Margaret Christakos looks at our primal appetite for attachment through the modern norms of codependency and coexistence, taking for granted the postmodern digital era where the tenderness of the individual are both exposed and masqueraded by the brazen and wary stirrings of virtual identity. "Margaret Christakos, poet of labor, is in addition a brilliant thinker on sexuality and its uses. [Her 2006 chapbook] Adult Video takes on the antiseptics and anapestics of a male-drive Oulipean procedural vision, and pulls them inside out until, finally, something ratty and valuable lets itself show and moan"--Kevin Killian.

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.

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