Margaret Christakos' fourth poetry collection playfully filters the refrains of domestic experience through an ever-shifting procedural sieve, rendering a series of ground-out texts which lift the vernacular to the plane of exuberant bliss. A woman's kaleidoscopic self-image emerges where memory and culture double back on each other amidst the practical realities of needing to leave the scene of mothering in order to write at all. The lover within the mother is invited throughout to speak and deliver herself through a series of impassioned memoirs to an exhilerating and complex embrace of the present.

Margaret Christakos has published three previous collections of poetry: Not Egypt (Coach House Press, 1989), Other Words for Grace (The Mercury Press, 1994), and The Moment Coming (ECW Press, 1998). She has worked for many years as an editor and production coordinator in the feminist and art communities in Toronto, contributing to Fuse Magazine, Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly of Writing, Politics, Art & Culture, ParallZlogramme, and Mix: the Magazine of Artist-Run Culture. She taught creative writing for six years at the Ontario College of Art & Design. Born in Sudbury in 1962, she obtained her B.F.A. in Visual Arts & Creative Writing from York University in 1985. In 1995, she completed an M.A. in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Christakos currently lives in Toronto with her partner and their three young children just off the Little Italy strip.