Poet Margaret Christakos visits Concordia, Monday Oct. 20

The Simone de Beauvoir Institute presents

Margaret Christakos

reading from her new collection of poetry, What Stirs

Monday, October 20^th, 2008

12:30-1:30pm

@ The Simone de Beauvoir Institute

2170 Rue Bishop, MU101

Followed by discussion, Q&A.

Books available for purchase & signing.

Info: (514)848-2373 or y_amor@alcor.concordia.ca

Following on her collections Excessive Love Prostheses and Sooner, Margaret Christakos looks at our primal appetite for attachment through the modern norms of codependency and coexistence, taking for granted the postmodern digital era where the tenderness of the individual are both exposed and masqueraded by the brazen and wary stirrings of virtual identity. Often playful but never trifling, Christakos accretes the ecstatic trajectories of lyric poetry, the mundane and intimate extremes of maternal subjectivity, and an abiding curiosity with procedural poetic composition into a wakeful field of linguistic, sensual and acoustic effects.

The Simone de Beauvoir Institute

History

The Institute, established in 1978, is an integral part of life at Concordia University and the broader Montréal community. The Institute is a college of Concordia University, dedicated to studying the conditions of women’s lives. Each year, the Institute offers a variety of exciting courses which explore the historical and contemporary aspects of women’s oppression and resistance.

Mission

The Institute strives to stimulate the investigation, understanding and communication of the historical and contemporary roles of women in society, and to encourage women to develop their full creative potential.

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