The Moment Coming

Literature & Fiction

Christakos, Margaret

Poetry

ECW Press

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.

Space Between Her Lips: The Poetry of Margaret Christakos (Laurier Poetry)

History & Criticism

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Essays. Women's Studies. HER PARAPHERNALIA, the new book of creative non-fiction from Canadian poet Margaret Christakos, presents an intimate and original collection of midlife writings that seeks to make readers think in a very personalized way about family geneology, private sexuality and life changes, including those experiences that exist at the intersections of contemporary digital culture. Christakos's virtuosity with language and wordplay tantalizes through a sequence of ten études (consisting of entre-genre pieces, including prose and lyric poetry, experimental writing that integrates elements of social media posts, and other forms) that explore women's and girls' relationships to self-portraiture in the Digital Age, and considers aspects of how we negotiate our public and private identities as women, mothers, and daughters. Christakos wrote HER PARAPHERNALIA as a love song to her mother and daughter. As such, the collection is at once a personal and yet wholly personable entrée into major themes that many people of all ages and stages can relate to—self-identity, the beauty of the selfie, partnership, divorce, miscarriage, menstruation, sexual lust, solo travel, depression, menopause, the death of a parent, the writing life, and women's transgenerational vitality, among others. "Easily one of our most daring, consistently inventive and deeply engaged contemporary Canadian poets."—rob mclennan "In Christakos's work the public and private are emphatically not separate. Multitudes provides readers with a poetics well tuned to rearticulate an insistently present tense."—Jason Weins

Her Paraphernalia: On Motherlines, Sex/Blood/Loss & Selfies (Essais, 1)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Book*hug Press

Margaret Christakos grew up with hills, rock, lakes and short cuts in Sudbury, Ontario, where winter was winter and summer was a fresh water lake called Ramsey. She left her home there on Wellington Heights for Toronto. From youth, to mothering, to writing, for Christakos livings fullness is also, inevitably, disembarking, leaving. Thats how paragraphs go / on the balls of their pink feet directly / into traffic. The movement is a continually sensuous wellingfrom pink, through purple, to blue. Purple is the colour of narrative, the middle place where the poets well-honed attention to language and its deliberateness shapes well the pink lyric memory welling up out of the blue shadowy well of whats in store.

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