Excessive Love Prostheses

by Margaret Christakos

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155245102X
• ISBN13: 9781552451021
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Coach House Books
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.6"