Love and Metaxa - Christina Strigas
Love and Metaxa - Christina Strigas Book
Christina Strigas takes you on a ride through the Greek celebrations and devastations of life, love, loss, song, and death. Using the underlying theme of Metaxa, the popular Greek amber spirit, Strigas explores through memory, events, and narratives, poems that dissect human nature. These are dark poems, written with a combination of stream of consciousness, evoking the confessional poets of our time. With nuances, imagery and crystal prose, these narrative poems ensure the absolute doubt yet the certainty of the power of love and death combined. How can love survive death?Crossing boundaries and languages, and living in a culturally vibrant city, such as Montreal, Strigas utilizes the images of her city, and culture to describe her personal relationships with people, strangers, and loved ones. Fresh poems, raw and honest poems, that also focus on the stardom and fall of technology and the modern poet; these poems also touch upon the reality of our modern world and the exuberant power of technology and its toxicity. Taking us through childhood moments and adult trauma, Love & Metaxa is a poetry book that was written with wise and engaging wisdom. The reader can easily be drawn into Strigas universe and feel the world she lives in, as well as understand how it feels to be an immigrants daughter. She takes us on a trip into her microcosm of fiction and reality. Love & Metaxa is a poetry collection that features a unique voice who has uncommon stories to tell.
P>Review "Love & Metaxa is a collection of feelings violently thrown against the page. Strigass work is intense and honest. This collection is a mirror that reminds us of ourselves: a little dirty, a bit sad, stained with coffee, questioning everything, remembering the things that turned into scars, craving booze, ignoring the way the heart aches. These poems are the equivalent of making out with a stranger in a parking lot as wild horses stampede down the street and you feel the weight of the ghosts of old lovers hanging from your lips. Ah, but there is fun and lust, locked rooms and books, the beach and the fact that death is not here yet. Forget reading these poems; feel them. They will probably kiss you in return."-Gabino Iglesias, author of Coyote Sings"Christina Strigass Love & Metaxa is a book for dark nights and lit city streets. Evoking the frankness of Ariana Reines-a true muse of post-Bukowski women poets-Strigas writes compelling of poets in the age of internet "high on imagery...looking out the windows anxious / about this and that." A collection that wanders as much as it desires and pursues, Love & Metaxa is heart-cathchingly bare with itself and its reader, often stripping a poem down to its vulnerable lines as one strips a bed: "I threw Shakespeare at you...but all you cared about was the white shape of my ass in the air."-Hannah VanderHart, author of What Pecan Light"Tough-talking, tender, and devastating in its unwavering no-bullshit self-examinations, Love & Metaxa is a French kiss in a car crash, a lace-bra wearing rebel with a cause, a fearless street-smart older sister of a book. To be read and read again when you need comfort, a wake-up slap, or both."-Amber Ridenour, author of Surfacing"In a stripped-down yet profound verse, the speaker in Love & Metaxa shows us the lust and magic of her Greek-Canadian life, but there is also lingering, painful familial memory. Similarly, the poet highlights the fast-paced world of poetry and its relationship to internet culture, and does notoverlook how art currently serves as a commodity and a privilege. In this always urgent, sometimes subtle collection, Strigas wants us to see and feel the heart and soul of things, and, at the end of the day, chase it down with a crisp glass of Metaxa, smooth and refined." -Jose Hernandez Diaz, author of The Fire Eater(BK-9781733103787)
| SKU | BK-9781733103787 |
| Barcode # | 9781733103787 |
| Brand | Christina Strigas |
| Artist / Author | Christina Strigas |
| Shipping Weight | 0.2500kg |
| Shipping Width | 0.130m |
| Shipping Height | 0.010m |
| Shipping Length | 0.200m |
| Type | Paperback |
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