{"product_id":"excessive-love-prostheses-margaret-christakos-9781552451021","title":"Excessive Love Prostheses","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe heart, writes Margaret Christakos, is 'a public organ of private damage.' The poems in \u003ci\u003eExcessive Love Prostheses\u003c\/i\u003e confess, rather than deride, the complexities of contemporary desire, describing a subject that is both public and private, physical and virtual.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eExcessive Love Prostheses\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Margaret Christakos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 155245102X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781552451021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Coach House Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/19\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.58h x 6.02w x 0.39d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2002 pg. 48","brand":"Margaret Christakos","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48485613830399,"sku":"9781552451021","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6a3365b4-26bb-4a9b-8046-932ebe83e495.jpg?v=1778050389","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/excessive-love-prostheses-margaret-christakos-9781552451021","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}