Space Between Her Lips : The Poetry of Margaret Christakos / Margaret Christakos; ed. by Gregory Betts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Christakos, Margaret, Author.

Contributor:

Betts, Gregory, Editor.

Series:

Laurier Poetry ; 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry--20th century.

Canadian poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (96 p.)

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Canada Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Table of Contents

Foreword

Biographical Note

"NOT FINISHED": byways of introductions

Threshold

from Words

from Words: Home Birth in Seven Easy Steps

missing/

G1. Video Technician

G2. Host

G3. Social Scientist

from Retreat Diary (Part 3)

from Orange Porch (book of reminiscences)

from The Cool Window

from The Offending Ear (Part 3. Hope: By-Products)

from Life Drawings: 'the gorge'

from Andalou

from Recalling the Cord

from Retour: Pere II

from Wellington (Part 1)

from Fresh Coffee

Visual Splendour Coupons

M1. UK Breast Milk Toxic: 13 July 99

M2. Ada and Eva

Strapless

Andalou

from Lovely One

from My Attaché Case

Uppity (a spiritual)

from The Seating Place

An Open Erotics of Gzowski

Tsal Day n Night

Grass

Voice Note - 0045

Lake

Charger

Afterword / Margaret Christakos

Acknowledgements

Books in in the the Laurier Laurier Poetry Poetry Series Series

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Feb 2024)

ISBN:

9781771122986

1771122986