The Moment Coming

An elaborate meditation on the challenges to the female self and the long-term partnership of raising a child, this work is a compelling, personal interrogation of both the notion of family and parenting. From the intersection of technology and the lyricism of landscape in “The Seating Place (Not Aided by a Computer),” a poetic cycle written against the backdrop of a Georgian Bay summer that becomes a reckoning with her family of origins and the birth of her first child, to the confrontation of un- and less-spoken struggles in “Bringing You Up,” Christakos charts a new poetic terrain. Over the course of this book, she describes the complex and passionate realm of responsibility and accountability.