What Stirs

by Christakos, Margaret

• ISBN13: 9781552452042
• ISBN10: 1552452042
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-01
• Publisher: Coach House Books

Summary

"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 Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Little Latches	p. 7
Lovely One	p. 31
My Attache Case	p. 39
Air Index	p. 47
The Hoity-Toity Supplements	p. 57
Wind I am lonely	p. 75
Something Inside Me	p. 87
Notes and Acknowledgements	p. 101
Note on the Author	p. 103
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