Excessive Love Prostheses

Author : Margaret Christakos
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 155245102X

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Excessive Love Prostheses by Margaret Christakos Pdf

The heart, writes Margaret Christakos, is 'a public organ of private damage.' The poems in Excessive Love Prostheses confess, rather than deride, the complexities of contemporary desire, describing a subject that is both public and private, physical and virtual. Excessive Love Prostheses takes the confessional lyric poem and runs it through Kathy Acker's Cuisinart. Christakos shapes a sensory surfeitry of pornography, cautionary nursery rhymes, mothering, bisexuality and the paradoxes of feminism into poignant analogies for contemporary obsessions and ailments; here are the voices of construction workers, staple sorters, obstetricians, video technicians and others, shattered and sorted by a practiced writerly hand. The result is a near-ecstatic tribute to the hyper-embodied intelligence of a new millennial subject.

Author : Rob McLennan
Publisher : Insomniac Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Canadian poetry
ISBN : 9781897414101

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Side/Lines by Rob McLennan Pdf

This anthology offers refereshing, cogent and insightful explanations of why young poets and writers do what they do. The thirty pieces in side/lines OCo by a unique variety of Canadian writers working in numerous genres OCo reflect on why writers write. Their reflections are not to be held as gospel or lifelong theories, but can be considered writing strategies drawn up at specific points in time, informed by certain unavoidable material conditions, such as current politics and emotions. Ask these writers to explain their craft in ten years, and you may be surprised by their answers."

Author : Bart Vautour,Erin Wunker,Travis V. Mason,Christl Verduyn
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781771120487

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Public Poetics by Bart Vautour,Erin Wunker,Travis V. Mason,Christl Verduyn Pdf

Public Poetics is a collection of essays and poems that address some of the most pressing issues of the discipline in the twenty-first century. The collection brings together fifteen original essays addressing “publics,” “poetry,” and “poetics” from the situated space of Canada while simultaneously troubling the notion of the nation as a stable term. It asks hard questions about who and what count as “publics” in Canada. Critical essays stand alongside poetry as visual and editorial reminders of the cross-pollination required in thinking through both poetry and poetics. Public Poetics is divided into three thematic sections. The first contains essays surveying poetics in the present moment through the lens of the public/private divide, systematic racism in Canada, the counterpublic, feminist poetics, and Canadian innovations on postmodern poetics. The second section contains author-specific studies of public poets. The final section contains essays that use innovative renderings of “poetics” as a means of articulating alternative communities and practices. Each section is paired with a collection of original poetry by ten contemporary Canadian poets. This collection attends to the changing landscape of critical discourse around poetry and poetics in Canada, and will be of use to teachers and students of poetry and poetics.

Author : Margaret Christakos
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1552451593

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Sooner by Margaret Christakos Pdf

Eschewing prevailing poetic fashion, Sooner reimagines poetry as a kind of cubist fascination, at times even a fascination with fascination itself. In Sooner, Christakos's most tender, lucent book to date, we find the delusory spiral reasoning of artistic schools; the fluid politic of desire, gender and domesticity; the recurrent trials of revulsion and arousal - all shined through Christakos's unique prismatic style to emerge in new, striking and often dissonant syntaxes. This is the music of a keenly tuned mind listening to all of its stations at once, a poetry of menace and possibility, clear sight and ambiguity, love and darkness, jealousy and light. If to know is to feel precisely, as another poet once suggested, Christakos makes it clear the opposite may be just as true, and that the devil is still in the details: You don't know what you think or feel. You only think and feel you know, and wave from the window...

Author : Margaret Christakos
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781771122993

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Space Between Her Lips by Margaret Christakos Pdf

Space Between Her Lips presents the first selected works of one of Canada's most important poets of the last few decades. Margaret Christakos writes vibrant, exciting, and intellectually challenging poetry. She plays language games that bring a probing and disturbing humour to serious themes that range from childhood and children to women in contemporary techno-capitalist society to feminist literary theory, and so much more. Gregory Betts’ introduction to the collection highlights her formal diversity and her unique combination of feminist and avant-garde affinities. He connects the geographies of her life — including Northern Ontario where she was raised, downtown Toronto where she studied with cutting-edge authors and artists like bpNichol and Michael Snow, and Montreal where she integrated with the country’s leading feminist authors and thinkers — with her polyphonic experimentation. While traversing the problem of bifurcated identities, Christakos is funny at a deeply semiotic level, wickedly wry, exposing something about the way we think by examining the way we speak of it. In her afterword, Christakos maps out a philosophy of writing that highlights her self-consciousness of the foibles of language but also deep concern for the themes she writes about, including her career-length exploration of self-discovery, hetero-, queer and bi-sexual sexualities, motherhood, self-care, and linguistic alienation. Indeed, Margaret Christakos is a whole-body poet, writing with the materiality of language about the movement of interior thought to embodied experience in the world.

Author : Heather Milne
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781609385774

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Poetry Matters by Heather Milne Pdf

Poetry Matters explores poetry written by women from the United States and Canada, which documents the social and political turmoil of the early twenty-first century and places this poetry in dialogue with recent currents of feminist theory including new materialism, affect theory, posthumanism, and feminist engagements with neoliberalism and capitalism. Central to this project is the conviction that a poetics that explores the political dimensions of affect; demonstrates an understanding of subjectivity as posthuman and transcorpoℜ critically reflects on the impact of capitalism on queer, racialized, and female bodies; and develops an ethical vocabulary for reimagining the nation state and critically engaging with issues of democracy and citizenship is now more urgent than ever before. Milne focuses on poetry published after 2001 by writers who mostly began writing after the feminist writing movements of the 1980s, but who have inherited and built upon their political and aesthetic legacies. The poets discussed in this book--including Jennifer Scappettone, Margaret Christakos, Larissa Lai, Rita Wong, Nikki Reimer, Rachel Zolf, Yedda Morrison, Marcella Durand, Evelyn Reilly, Juliana Spahr, Claudia Rankine, Dionne Brand, Jena Osman, and Jen Benka--bring a sense of political agency to poetry. These voices seek new vocabularies and dissenting critical and aesthetic frameworks for thinking across issues of gender, materiality, capitalism, the toxic convergences of nationalism and racism, and the decline of democratic institutions. This is poetry that matters--both in its political urgency and in its attentiveness to the world as "matter"--as a material entity under siege. It could not be more timely or more relevant.

Author : Margaret Christakos
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781770563612

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Multitudes by Margaret Christakos Pdf

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.

Author : Rob McLennan
Publisher : Misfit Book
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131725033

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Subverting the Lyric by Rob McLennan Pdf

From one of the most prolific and engaged book reviewers in Canada over the past 15 years, this collection of essays and reviews showcases the literary insight of rob mclennan. The works of such Canadian poets as George Bowering, Margaret Christakos, and Barry McKinnon are addressed and analyzed, as is the status of Canadian poetry as a whole. Mclennan’s own investigations into the craft of writing are uncovered as well. Strikingly innovative and refreshingly communal, this compilation works as a whole to demonstrate how mainstream Canadian literature can be reconciled with the art of fringe authors.

Author : University of Toronto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCBK:C083968323

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University of Toronto Quarterly by University of Toronto Pdf

Author : Helen Tsiriotakis
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1552450597

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A House of White Rooms by Helen Tsiriotakis Pdf

The first collection from a new voice in Toronto poetry. 'To read Helen Tsiriotakis is to know the scalding appetites of morning without recourse to shade ... Dear reader, take the exquisite risk.' - Robert Kroetsch.

Author : Kate Eichhorn,Heather Milne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124143103

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Prismatic Publics by Kate Eichhorn,Heather Milne Pdf

Trace the diverse networks, influences, dialogues, dialectics, and interventions that make Canada's women writers a powerful force in avant-garde literature.

Author : Margaret Christakos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131620598

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What Stirs by Margaret Christakos Pdf

"What is it to feel attached and what is it to be free? Is contemporary love a reasonable desire or a whacked-out addiction? How many sippy-cup lattes have you had today, anyway?" "Both playful and probing, What Stirs looks at our primal appetite for human attachment in a postmodern digital era where the tenderness of the individual is both exposed and easily masqueraded by the brazen and wary stirrings of virtual identity. In this new collection, Margaret Christakos accretes the ecstatic reach of lyric poetry, and her abiding curiosities about subjective excess and procedural poetic composition into a uniquely wakeful field of linguistic, acoustic and narrative pleasure."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Kelli María Korducki
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781770565265

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Hard To Do by Kelli María Korducki Pdf

From Jane Austen to Taylor Swift, a look at the surprising politics of romantic love and its dissolution. Whatever the underlying motives – be they love, financial security, or mere masochism – the fact is that getting involved in a romantic partnership is emotionally, morally, and even politically fraught. In Hard To Do, Kelli María Korducki turns a Marxist lens on the relatively short history of romantic partnership, tracing how the socio-economic dynamics between men and women have transformed the ways women conceive of domestic partnership. With perceptive, reported insights on the ways marriage and divorce are legislated, the rituals of twentieth-century courtship, and contemporary practices for calling it off, Korducki reveals that, for all women, choosing to end a relationship is a radical action with very limited cultural precedent.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 1610 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Canada Imprints
ISBN : 00688398

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Canadian Books in Print. Author and Title Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106015687574

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