From Sudbury-born, Toronto-based experimental poet extraordinaire, Margaret Christakos, comes the brilliant chapbook, Social Medea vs. Virtual Medusa.

Social Medea vs Virtual Medusa careens and spreads all over the page, which is why we opted to print it in half-legal rather than our typical half-letter format. Christakos’s long lines and characteristic disruptive syntax revisits the mythological figures of Medea and Medusa as victims turned villains. The book is filled with abject images and body horror that revive these figures, and a second-wave feminist body politic, and considers how those bodies work in a world steeped in technology.

Sample Poem

Cinnamon or synonym.
Kitchen or itching.
Poison or persons.
Act now.
Take.
Day One.
Itching or poison.
Synonym or persons.
Cinnamon or kitchen.

They had it coming and going. They got it having their coming and eating too. Who do you know doesn’t lack discipline? Who doesn’t live wrong?