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That Audible Slippage
Margaret Christakos
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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.
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