Multitudes

Margaret Christakos

• Publisher: Coach House Books
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781770563612
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Canadian Poetry
• Index: Literature

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.

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Excess is the culprit.
Euripedes, trans. Anne Carson

hard to say whether it's really really late or really really early.

Earlate.

January 4, 2012 at 7:22

It was really friggin early. And now the day is very wonked.

January 4, 2012 at 15:01

library vibrancy; solo silence silo, my kind of shush.

January 11, 2012 at 16:31

Reading family geneology in four directions that each loop

around to crisscross the others, sort of like the dog’s

meander-tracks out on the lakesnow yesterday

January 17, 2012 at 17:21

simmer down kiddo.

January 20, 2012 at 13:10

only bright spot of the last 3 days was provided by the

sizzling hot female paramedics.

January 23, 2012 at 00:58

has to comment on the huge infrastructure of sense-making

involved in a sentence like the above. We take it for granted,

every second.

January 24, 2012 at 19:42

tearing through journals from 1984–1991; recognize one's past

self is probably the best mentor at many points.

January 27, 2012 at 12:00

really frickin irritating dreams.

February 4, 2012 at 11:53

slow reading has another name. it's reading.

February 7, 2012 at 12:04

too much enough not enough much too little. and over. revise

the measure.

March 1, 2012 at 11:38

is running a mok a pparently today.

March 4, 2012 at 16:52

see there's nowhere inperson speech you can walk up to

somebody and say excess = x s. s’why I love the internet.

March 8, 2012 at 14:21

considering the chasm so often between carers and careers.

March 12, 2012 at 17:31

after being away several days, opens up the kitchen computer

and finds a ‘How to make a fried egg’ video link. The kids are

all right indeed.

March 19, 2012 at 14:44

biking silken wind or what.

March 20, 2012 at 13:29

saw forsythia on the way to see cynthia.

March 24, 2012 at 15:56

jop-drawed by those hills. who made such hills? how do those

hills hold? dam-wild hill action.

April 5, 2012 at 16:49

each ache each aches.

April 19, 2012 at 12:52

wrioting.

April 19, 2012 at 15:10

trying to think outside the bosc.

April 25, 2012 at 4:21

famous first words.

April 25, 2012 at 16:33

oasisish.

April 28, 2012 at 11:25

accordion: full pedal jack...

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Inside Front Cover
• About This Book
• Half-Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Dedication
• Threshold
• Hoop
• Enough
• Weapon
• Mounds
• Banish
• Play
• Notes and Acknowledgements
• About the Author
• Colophon