Multitudes

Margaret Christakos’s ninth collection, Multitudes, is a rousing, witty foray into a timely frontier of public spaces, poetic forms, private longings and virtual relocations. With her trademark linguistic sonar, Christakos freshly filters Whitman’s ‘Song of Myself’ through the intimate address of social media where individuals conduct flamboyant acts of lament, protest, erotic self-dispersal and indelible spectacle.

‘These gorgeously measured poems drill down through language to deliver treasure, sex and some of the most incisive observations about networked culture I’ve encountered. A must-read for the smart, the dirty and the connected.’

— Caitlin Fisher

‘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