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Excessive Love Prostheses, Paperback / softback Book

Excessive Love Prostheses Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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The heart, writes Margaret Christakos, is 'a public organ of private damage.' The poems in Excessive Love Prostheses confess, rather than deride, the complexities of contemporary desire, describing a subject that is both public and private, physical and virtual. Excessive Love Prostheses takes the confessional lyric poem and runs it through Kathy Acker's Cuisinart.

Christakos shapes a sensory surfeitry of pornography, cautionary nursery rhymes, mothering, bisexuality and the paradoxes of feminism into poignant analogies for contemporary obsessions and ailments; here are the voices of construction workers, staple sorters, obstetricians, video technicians and others, shattered and sorted by a practiced writerly hand.

The result is a near-ecstatic tribute to the hyper-embodied intelligence of a new millennial subject.

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  • Format:Paperback / softback
  • Pages:88 pages
  • Publisher:Coach House Books
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  • ISBN:9781552451021
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  • Out of stock

  • Format:Paperback / softback
  • Pages:88 pages
  • Publisher:Coach House Books
  • Publication Date:
  • ISBN:9781552451021