Margaret Christakos' Sooner compresses, collapses, and commingles a multi-narrative thread as a paean to and reflection of urban dystopia from an outsider's close observation. Through onomatopoeic prose poems, run-on couplets, columns, cadences, and concrete/typographical poetry, Christakos alchemizes a new genre perfectly honed for capturing the post-modern cityscape in all its diversity. As linguistic trailblazer, Christakos catalyzes the reader to consider poetic language beyond the traditional metaphor, cadence, and so on.
