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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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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies

• Full title: Excessive Love Prostheses
• Author: Margaret Christakos
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88
• EAN: 9781552451021
• ISBN: 9781552451021
• ID: 06570835
• Publisher: Coach House Books
• Weight: 192 g
• Dimensions: 134 × 214 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. June 1998

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