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Theophylline Erin Moure

Theophylline By Erin Moure

Theophylline by Erin Moure


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Theophylline: Poems by Erin Moure

What is breath for? What is archive? Why write a poem, instead of... something else?

Theophylline is a work of poetry motivated by asthma, seeking poetrys futurity in a queer and female heritage. Moure crosses a border to engage the poetry of three American modernistsMuriel Rukeyser, Elizabeth Bishop, and Angelina Weld Grimkeas a translator might enter work to translate it. But what if that work is already in English?

I looked for women who had made and were formed by
migrations, and who were in some way marked qustionably
by the socius, and I examined what I could of the forms and
shapes of their migrations

Theophylline Reviews

InTheophylline, the poets interaction with Rukeyser, Bishop, and Grimke is itself a translation ... Moure works to sensitively resuscitate erased histories.

* Poetry Foundation *

Generous in its generation of shared meaning and multiple voices Theophyllinebreathes on and through each turning page, as it migrates across multiple thresholds. As [Moure] fits herself into the shoes of others and otherness, she walks the walk and talks the talk of postmodern poetry and translation.

* Miramichi Reader *

A triumphant work ofessai-poetry Moures theorized queer poetics of disability is convincing and compelling, and the studied elements of translation and fragmentation elevate the book to a unique project.

* Montreal Review of Books *

From the breath and language of others, Moure finds her own breath vocabulary, her own field of play, and in the process goes beyond mere homage into the electric field and unsettled history of these poets with whom she now breathes.

-- Vallum

About Erin Moure

ERIN MOURE is a poet and translator (primarily of Galician and French poetry into English) who welcomes texts that are unconventional or difficult because she loves and needs them. Among other honours, she is a two-time winner of Canadas Governor Generals Award (in poetry and translation), a winner of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Nelson Ball Prize, a co-recipient of the QWF Spoken Word Prize, a three-time finalist for a Best Translated Book Award in poetry, and a three-time finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. She is based in Tiohtia:ke/Montreal. ELISA SAMPEDRIN is undependable. Her presence, like that of the shoe, worries the book.

Additional information

NGR9781487011604
9781487011604
1487011601
Theophylline: Poems by Erin Moure
New
Paperback
House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
2023-09-21
256
N/A
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