Multitudes : deilmsttuu, sedutitlum

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. Review "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 ] About the Author 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. "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. The author's ninth collection, Multitudes, is a rousing, witty foray into a timely frontier of public spaces, poetic forms, private longings and virtual relocations. With her trademark linguistic sonar, Christakos freshly filters Whitman's 'Song of Myself' through the intimate address of social media where individuals conduct flamboyant acts of lament, protest, erotic self-dispersal and indelible spectacle Poems chronicling the contemporary self's fluctuating desire between near-obliterating connectedness and panoptical self-surveillance in the social media age.