Multitudes

by Margaret Christakos

"Alphabetic dismantling, syntactic play, essaying words backwards and 4words (as she might say), Christakos manifests forensic clarity and telegraphic fortitude in this unsettling work."—Rachel Blau DuPlessis Revelling in the value of social polyphony from Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself," Multitudes looks at its contemporary theatres of Facebook and Twitter, post-riot police surveillance, protest culture and poetry itself. With wit, perceptiveness and her trademark linguistic sonar, Margaret Christakos keenly examines intimacies and banishments, as well as intergenerational grief, self-display and social hope.

Genres: Poetry, Canada

120 pages, Paperback

First published October 7, 2013

Reviews

[Sami Tunji · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is quite a bold collection of poems that defy phonological, morphological and syntactic ordering. With the use of palindromes and other alphabetic reordering, this collection is simply "an utterly unconstrained plethora of baffled pattern". And the poet hopes that her readers will "fall fill fell foll full in love with Alphabet".