Charger

Canadian poet Margaret Christakos gathers her new poems in Charger, a collection about life lived through screens and the networks that connect us. The poems look at how digital devices shape who we are, and how they carry us toward one another.

The work moves between the private and the public, between the body that dies and the self that exists online, and between our sense of being cut off from the natural world and our wish to belong to it. Christakos also questions the idea that our habits of consumption and use can continue without limit.

Memory and grief for people who have been loved and lost run through the book. Throughout, the poems ask how we might revive one another while caught up in the fast electronic webs that now shape how we behave with others.