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Theophylline : an a-poetic migration via the modernisms of Rukeyser, Bishop, Grimké (de Castro, Vallejo) / Erín Moure.

by Moure, Erín, 1955-

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Poetry -- Collections.

Poetry -- Translations into English.

9781487011604 (pbk.)

Alternate title:

Poetic migration via the modernisms of Rukeyser, Bishop, Grimké (de Castro, Vallejo)

A-poretic migration via the modernisms of Rukeyser, Bishop, Grimké (de Castro, Vallejo)

161 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

In the subtitle, the first "n", "a-", and "r" appear in a lighter and smaller font.

Includes bibliographical references.

"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 poetry’s futurity in a queer and female heritage. Moure crosses a border to engage the poetry of three American modernists -- Muriel Rukeyser, Elizabeth Bishop, and Angelina Weld Grimké -- as 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 ‘questionably’ by the socius, and I examined what I could of the forms and shapes of their migrations."--Back cover.

Erín 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 Canada's Governor General’s 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.

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