The heart writes Margaret Christakos is a public organ of private damage. The poems in Excessive Love Prostheses confess rather than deride the complexities of contemporary desire describing a subject that is both public and private physical and virtual. Excessive Love Prostheses takes the confessional lyric poem and runs it through Kathy Ackers Cuisinart. Christakos shapes a sensory surfeitry of pornography cautionary nursery rhymes mothering bisexuality and the paradoxes of feminism into poign